TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY MODEL Improved Cultivation Technique for Highyielding Bamboo Stands for Indus

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TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY MODELImproved
Cultivation Technique for High-yielding Bamboo
Stands for Industrial Pulp and Paper Production

• INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR BAMBOO AND RATTAN

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Why bamboo?

• Bamboos grow more rapidly than trees and start to
  yield within three or four years of planting.
• Plantation establishment requires minimal capital
  investment and builds upon the inherent
  plant-cultivation skills of local farmers and
  foresters.
• Bamboos can be harvested annually and
  non-destructively.
• Bamboos are excellent for rejuvenating degraded
  lands and protecting against soil erosion.
• Bamboos may easily be intercropped with
  shallow-rooted crops.
• As well as the culms, all other parts of the
  bamboo plant can be used in rural livelihoods -
  shoots for food, leaves for fodder, and branches
  for items such as brooms and for firewood.

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Why Manage Bamboo Stands for Industrial Pulp and
Paper Production ?

• Bamboo culms are excellent raw materials for
  processing into different kinds of paper.
• Bamboo has a high cellulose (4060) and low
  hemicellulose content, and the fibers are strong,
  long (2.0 - 3.0mm), have a high length to width
  ratio and thick walls, which are beneficial for
  papermaking.
• Pulp and paper production for the world market is
  increasing and requires large amounts of raw
  materials.
• Commercially productive bamboo stands for pulp
  and paper production benefits the ecology and
  economies of rural communities.

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What are High-yielding Bamboo Stands for
Industrial Pulp and Paper Production ?

• The aim of Improved Cultivation Techniques for
  High-yielding Bamboo Stands for Industrial Pulp
  and Paper Production is to implement modern
  cultivation and management techniques to meet the
  increasing demand of raw materials for pulp and
  paper production .
• The bamboo stands are managed for culm
  production, and specific cultivation and
  harvesting techniques are used.
• The standing bamboo culms are harvested on short
  rotation cycles.

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How do I establish bamboo stands for pulp
production?
3. Loosen the soil
2. Remove the old stumps
1. Select the species
4. Timely application of fertilizer
5. Practice Rational Culm Harvesting
6.Constant monitoring and improvement
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Main development attributes of high-yield bamboo
stands for pulp and paper production

• Reduces dependence on timber resources and
  thereby increases environmental protection and
  conservation.
• Permits rehabilitation of degraded lands through
  increased areas of bamboo plantations and
  increases land productivity.
• Creates employment opportunities because it is
  labor intensive with very low investment.
• Builds on the inherent plant cultivation skills
  of local farmers and foresters and hence is
  easily adopted, and the work is gender
  insensitive - women can be employed in all stages
  of paper production.
• Requires organic inputs such as fertiliser for
  optimum plant growth.

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Some salient facts

• The development of bamboo stands for pulp and
  paper production should be market oriented,
  otherwise success will be unlikely.
• The participants in bamboo management requires
• suitable financial and service supports in order
  to operate properly.

Choice of species is important. Species should
have high-yield productivity and have fibre
characteristics that make them suitable for pulp
and paper production It are important to
regulate bamboo stand structure and practice
rational cutting and fertilizing.
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Requirements for success

• Land available for bamboo cultivation
• Interest in local communities in planting bamboo.
• Start up capital for the purchase of propagules,
  fertilisers and labor costs.
• Easy access to market with cheap transportation.
• Institutional and policy support.
• Proper market linkages to the purchasers of the
  bamboo culms.

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Financial aspects of a new sympodial bamboo
plantation(based on an example of B.rigida
plantation in south China)

• WORKING CAPITAL (Yuan/ha)
• Fertilizer (annually) 750
• Transport (year 4)
  25
• Transport (annually, year 5-15) 50
• Plantlets (1st year only) 3,700
• Salaries/management (1st year) 3,850
• Salaries (annually, year 2 - 3) 400
• Salaries (years 4) 742
• Salaries (years 5 - 15)
  1,180
• Miscellaneous (annually) 50

ANNUAL OUTPUTS (Yuan/ha) YEARS 1 - 3 Zero YEAR
4 3,810 YEAR 5 -15 (each) 8,100 Note The
annual outputs from the 5th year to the 15th year
are 30 tonnes of culms and 0.9 tones of shoots
per ha, and price of culms and shoots are 240
Yuan/tonne and 1000 Yuan/tonne respectively.
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For further information
See TOTEMs Community bamboo nursery
TOTEM Bamboo shoot plantation TOTEM. Homestead
bamboo plantations TOTEM. Smallholder bamboo
plantations TOTEM. Community rattan nursery
TOTEM. Bamboo papermaking TOTEM Websites INBAR
www.inbar.int RISF www.caf.ac.cn/newcaf/english/y
ls/yls.htm China National Bamboo Research Centre
(CNBRC) www.caf.ac.cn/newcaf/english/zzzx/bamboo
.htm

• Contact
• INBAR, Beijing 100101-80, China
• Bamboo Research Division, Research Institute of
  Subtropical Forestry (RISF), Chinese Academy of
  Forestry, 73 Daqiao Road, Fuyang, Zhejiang,
  China.