BEEMA BAMBOO

BEEMA BAMBOO

Subject : Environment

Context :Crash barriers made of Beema bamboo and coir are being developed as a low-cost solution as the Centre looks for innovative, newer ways to bring down fatalities and mishaps on roads.

Concept :

Beema Bamboo

• Beema or Bheema bamboo is a type of bamboo engineered to be a stronger, fast-growing and tall clone of the traditional bamboo found in the Indian subcontinent, especially the North-East. This variety grows well in southern India also.
• This cloned Bamboo is a superior clone, selected from Bambusabalcooa, a higher Biomass yielding Bamboo species.
• It is thornless, sterile, fast growing and High yeilding superior bamboo. It can grow in the field for more than hundred years without need for replanting.
• If it is managed as per the Silvicultural methods it will higher Biomass on sustainable basis. Soil, water requirement and climatic conditions are similar as sugarcane crop.
• Beema Bamboo acts as a Carbon Sink and absorbs excess Carbon-di-oxide in the air three to four times than other trees.
• Obviously, it is eco-friendly and absorbs 400 to 500 Kg of Carbon-di-oxide every year and grows five times faster than other spices of Bamboo