Bamboos are evergreen perennial flowering plants with fasciculate roots, hollow stalks, divided into sections by joints. Bamboos form forests quickly, adapt easily to a variety of living conditions, and can regrow normally after harvest.
Bamboos also have many applications in industries such as construction, crafts, paper industry, fisheries, and consumables.
As the demand for
bamboos – both domestic and international – continues to increase, the
traditional cultivation method is no longer suffice. Bamboos’ long, irregular
flowering cycle leads to a shortage of seeds. The new popular cultivation
method is in vitro propagation. This method is favored due to its high
productivity: in just one year, between 100.000 and 200.000 healthy,
disease-free, well-adapted seedlings are produced from just one original
sprout.
In addition, another
cultivating method receiving much attention is aeroponics. This is a new method
used in agriculture, growing plants without the use of soil (terraponics) or
water (hydroponics), instead growing them in the air with nutrient-rich mist.
The mist provides nutrient to the roots, enable growth and development for the
plant. Aeroponics is considered a breakthrough in asexual propagation, since it
can be used to propagate many species of plant, with a much shorter cycle, 30
times the productivity of the traditional method, remove the need for the
complicated sterilizing process (of the environment and specimens) in culturing
tissues, saving labor, material, and lower cost.
* Technical
requirements
Productivity meets the demand for 700.000 ha of bamboo
forest.
* Methods of cooperation
Transfer of tissue culturing / aeroponics technology for bamboo trees
Sale of propagated end-products (bamboo seedlings)