KOKRAJHAR

Coimbatore, Aug. 30 The Hosur-based Growmore Biotech has developed a bamboo variety called Beema that is rich in biomass yields.

The high-yielding clone is thorn-less, thick-walled, non-flowering and responsive to field management practice.

JOWAI: Union Minister of State for Water Resources Development, Vincent H Pala inaugurated the Common Facility Centre (CFC) of the Women's Group Handicrafts Multi-purpose Cooperative Society at Madankynsaw (Moo-kyndeng) village in Jaintia Hills on Wednesday.

ITANAGAR, Aug 18: Governor General (Retd) JJ Singh inaugurated a Bamboo Processing Centre at Poma Village near here today in presence of a large gathering.

Additional Chief Secretary (Forests) Prashant Mehta said that development of public-private participation model is necessary for improvement of degraded forests in the state. He said that bamboo plantation should be done in large scale. Private institutions can take up the work of plantation of trees in degraded forests.

Vasundhara Vyas Mehta,

AHMEDABAD: The age-old skill of making household goods and decorative items from bamboo is in for a metamorphosis. And, making his contribution to this transformation is a student of National Institute of Design

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between Bodoland Bamboo Development Board (BBDB), Kokrajhar, and International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR), Beijing, recently at the conference hall of BTC Secretariat here for establishment of a bamboo shoot processing centre at Central Institute of Technology (CIT), Kokrajhar.

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SHASHANK SHEKHAR
Baskets of hope

Dhanbad/Bokaro, July 30: The forest department has embarked on a bamboo plantation drive with the aim of generating employment for tribals of Naxalite strongholds in Dhanbad and Bokaro districts so that they aren