Friday, June 26, 2015

By Ruthie Calderon


Bamboo is special. This is because, it has several applications in rural industries including furniture, handicrafts, houses and utensils. Also, it is widely used in paper and wood industries. Research institutions, governments and other private businesses are taking a great interest in the economic and environmental possibilities of bamboos. In fact, in the past few years, there has been a great success on the manufacturing industries using this plant across the globe.

Bamboos are one of the most essential plants that provide a huge connection of environmental benefits. It can be used for erosion prevention as well stabilization of soils on hills. Bamboos can be harvested from natural plantations or forests. There are typically different species of bamboo found in the world. One of these species is the temple bamboo and considered as the largest bamboo across the globe.

It is known as a woody grass that can stand strong winds and makes a great hedge without pruning. Aside from that, it is also called as a running bamboo that can easily spread in the garden, but can be controlled by root pruning. Bamboos are also a great option for protecting and saving tropical jungles whilst making a great supply for the wood industries.

Today, there is already a growing awareness in the past years that this plant plays an essential function for the development and improvement of livelihoods of poor people in the rural areas. Millions of people are generating income from these plants and millions of people in the world live in bamboo homes. There are also parts of the bamboos harvested by children and women and many of them are living in most developing countries.

This is actually a natural plant used to develop a place since rural poor people has the great access to it. These plants can be easily planted, grown quickly and harvested in different forest areas. Some need to invest a capital on it to obtain a stable income. In different parts of the world, rural areas depend on bamboo plants for their daily activities and serve as their shelter.

In the pas few decades, knowledge and research has a great impact to different industries. There are actually different export markets that have been opened. The product development continues until today. The usage of these bamboos has increases including a certain transformation of structural panels.

Bamboos greatly offers a lot of strategic advantages to promote this plant as a great alternative to wood and construction materials. These plants provide a solution to any serious problems such as deforestation. In some parts of the world, people cook their food over wood fires. Thus, they cut down trees to make cooking fuels.

It also offer other advantages especially when flood or storm strikes a country. Its roots is helpful to hold the soil and could prevent soil erosion or landslides. It provides a lot of things necessary for your daily undertaking. Although there are different kinds of plant growing in the world, but bamboos stand out among those species.

As you can see, lots of benefits and advantages can be obtained from using these plants. It can be used in building shelters, handicrafts and other uses. For that reason, people can also earn money through these plants without investing too much.




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