When people turn forest managers
India’s degraded forests are seeing a turnaround. From curbing rhino poaching to stopping tree felling and regenerating biodiversity, local communities have taken ownership of their forest homes in several
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NMBA to provide fund for bamboo-based industry
Itanagar: The National Mission on Bamboo Application (NMBA) has assured Arunachal Pradesh to provide fund for establishment of bamboo-based small scale industry in the State. The assurance was given by NMBA Director in-charge and Mission Co-ordinator Ajay Kumar to newly appointed vice-chairman of Bamboo Development Board of Arunachal Pradesh, Yora Tagung in New Delhi on Tuesday, official sources informed here today.
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Forest dept puts focus on national bamboo mission
LUCKNOW: In a bid to promote bamboo cultivation and its usage, the state forest department along with the national bamboo mission would hold a workshop here on January 10. Currently, in India, there are 1,275 varieties of bamboo. The national bamboo mission is to be implemented in 20 districts of the state. UP had sanctioned Rs 4.10 crore under the mission in 2008.
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Joint committee report to the NGT on forest plantations at Tikri range, district Gonda, Uttar Pradesh, 06/05/2023
<p>Factual/inspection report in compliance to the NGT order dated March 1, 2023 in the matter of Original Application No. 125/2023, News item published in Rashtriya Sahara dated February 3, 2023 titled
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Lanka’s bamboo industry gets UNIDO backing
Sri Lanka’s fledgling bamboo industry is boosted by a wave of support from UNIDO. “Sri Lanka has now begun to realize the value of promoting Bamboo as an industry thanks to the efforts of UNIDO. With
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Bamboo, medicinal plants plantations to be encouraged
Agartala: The autonomous Tripura Forest Development and Plantation Corporation has decided to encourage bamboo cultivation and medicinal plant and rare herb plantations besides rubber, officials said on
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Great potential of bamboo-based products in Tripura
“They have agreed to invest Rs 80 crore for setting up two industrial units at the proposed Bamboo Park at Bodhjungnagar and have already bought five acres of land from us,” Chairman of Tripura Industrial Development Corporation said. Chief Minister Manik Sarkar laid the foundation stone for the Bamboo Park on January 27 which aimed to ensure value addition to bamboo. The Central government has sanctioned Rs 29 crore for its development, spread over 69 acres of land which is just 12 km from here.
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Move to boost State's bamboo industry
The Forest department of the State has undertaken an ambitious project of bamboo plantation to strengthen the economic foundation of the State. Talking to mediapersons recently at Nagaon, Rockybul Hussain, Forest Minister told that his department would plant bamboo on 2000 hectares of land around Guwahati through the Bamboo Mission. He also disclosed that to make bamboo-based industry popular, two bamboo museums would be opened, one each at Nagaon and Guwahati.
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Bamboo processing industry initiated in Sri Lanka
The United Nation's Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), in cooperation with the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, has initiated a bamboo processing industry in Sri Lanka. Global Environment
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Bamboo flowering in AP
Itanagar: Farmers of several villages in Chayang Tajo and Sawa circles under East Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh are spending sleepless nights following bamboo flowering on a large scale.
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Builders told to get cracking on bamboo
A house with a bamboo door, bamboo roof and bamoo walls, they've even got a bamboo floor
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Committee report on Polavaram Irrigation Project, 23/02/2021
<p>Observations made by a four member committee and task force on Polavaram Irrigation Project in compliance with the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order in O.A. No. 857 of 2018.</p> <p>The Polavaram
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India’s first bamboo park to come up in Tripura
Agartala: Tripura, which grows 25 varieties of bamboo, is about to make the most of this natural wealth by developing India’s first bamboo park. The idea is to help expand industries based on this produce,
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Hill people fear food crisis as bamboo clusters flowering
Bamboo clusters in Khagrachhari are flowering and fruiting in a massive scale, giving an ominous sign of food crisis in the hills.
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Battle for the mother land: indigenous people of Colombia fighting for their lands
A green-and-red flag flies over a cluster of bamboo and tarpaulin tents on the frontline of an increasingly deadly struggle for land and the environment in Colombia’s Cauca Valley. It is the banner
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Bamboo find its way into construction industry in Pune
Bamboo is perhaps one of the most precious natural resources India possesses.
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Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Measures to reduce land degradation, 09/12/2019
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Measures to reduce land degradation, 09/12/2019. Various steps have been taken by the Government of India to reduce land degradation and desertification of land to ensure
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Arunachal to sign MoUs for boosting bamboo sector
Arunachal Pradesh will soon ink Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) with Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) and Hindustan Paper Corporation to help potential bamboo growers in the state. Arunachal Pradesh
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Bamboo demise leaves Jarey roofs bereft
Bamboos dying in large numbers on the hills of Jarey gewog in Lhuentse worry villagers, who depend on the plant for roofing and other domestic purposes. About 150 houses in the gewog with 221 households have bamboo roofing, while others use bamboo to roof animal sheds and make products for domestic use.