Scientists have conducted several biotechnology research and plant breeding in bamboo which led to the development of a hybrid bamboo that will be the solution for energy, paper pulp and bamboo charcoal production. The hybrid bamboo plant is not a genetically modified organism; rather it is a product of conventional breeding. Hybrid bamboo can grow in all types of soil. The preferred soil is light soil, loamy soil, red soil and sandy loam soil.

Just after a three year gestation period, a one acre yield will be an amazing 40 m tons, with 8-10% moisture and less than 1% ash content. A well-grown hybrid bamboo plantation is able to sequester close to 60 tons of carbon-dioxide in every acre annually which is 80 CER of carbon trading. Lacking thorns, it's easy to cultivate and harvest.

Hybrid Bamboo properties include:

• Thorn-less
• Thick-walled
• Disease free
• Non-flowering, sterile
• Grows 1 ½ to 3 Ft per day
• Moisture content is 10-18%
• Ash Content less than 1%
• Cultivation on non-arable land
• Perennial, replanting not necessary
• Each acre absorbs 80 tons of carbon-dioxide per year

Extremely high biomass yield

Under intensive cultivation with the population of 1000 plants per acre (2.471 plants per hectare), the biomass yield starts from:

• 2nd year @ 30.3 tons per acre (75 tons per hectare)
• 3rd year @ 40.5 tons per acre (100 tons per hectare)
• 4th year @ 50.5 tons per acre (125 tons per hectare)
• 5th year + @ 60.5 tons per acre (150 tons per hectare)
• 8th year + @ 64.5 tons per acre (160 tons per hectare)

About Bamboo Sur:

Bamboo Sur specializes in alternative fuel methods. They are experts in developing and managing bamboo plantations, consulting on mass propagation of bamboos and advising state governments and farmers for development of bamboo on a mega scale.

Bamboo Sur has contractually secured up to 1000 hectares of farmland in India, South Europe and Africa to plant this new hybrid bamboo. Website: www.bamboo-plants.eu and www.biomass-bamboo.com

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