Hindustan Paper Corporation Limited, the third largest entity in the Indian Paper Industry operating with three large integrated paper mills each with installed capacity of 1,00,000 ton paper per annum. Two are directly managed Units in Asom

The poor man's timber, bamboo, is no longer the orphan crop. It is gradually engaging the attention of the government, which has planned to diversify its uses to reap the benefits in the $7.5 billion global bamboo product market. India is the second richest bamboo resource country in the world, next only to China. In terms of genetic diversity, India has 136 bamboo species under 75 genera. About 89 bamboo species out of 126 recorded in India under 16 genera grow naturally in different forest areas or are cultivated.

Commercial cultivation of the "green gold'

New Delhi, Apr 9 An ambitious and innovative four-year project, which aims at strengthening India's role as a leader in the world cane and bamboo industry, was launched here on Wednesday by the Union minister for the development of northeastern region, Mani Shankar Aiyar, at a function in the presence of the UNIDO director-general Kandeh Yumkella.

Mizoram is an oasis of peace in the Northeast, surrounded by trouble-torn Assam and Manipur, and the smaller Tripura, where, too, a lingering insurgency ensures that things are only comparatively better. And the Mizos are capitalising fully on the peace dividend, even sending out the message that "peace pays' to the other states in the region.

An inter-ministerial team, led by central agriculture joint secretary Pankaj Kumar, is currently touring Mizoram's countryside to study the ground reality of the bamboo flowering-caused famine.

In a bid to boost the production of bamboo, considered to be an important cash crop, the National Bamboo Mission is training about 30 farmers of Golaghat, Sivasagar and Jorhat districts at composite t

The National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) has estimated that if adequate market infrastructure is set up the northeastern India, within a span of 10 years, can garner $ one billion o