MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
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(a) The restructured National Bamboo Mission (NBM) has been launched in 2018-19 with following objectives:
i) To increase the area under bamboo plantation in non forest Government and private lands to supplement farm income and contribute towards resilience to climate change as well as availability of quality raw material requirement of industries. The bamboo plantations will be promoted predominantly in farmers’ fields, homesteads, community lands, arable wastelands, and along irrigation canals, water bodies etc.
ii) To improve post-harvest management through establishment of innovative primary processing units near the source of production, primary treatment and seasoning plants, preservation technologies and market infrastructure.
iii) To promote product development keeping in view market demand, by assisting R&D, entrepreneurship & business models at micro, small and medium levels and feed bigger industry.
iv) To rejuvenate the under developed bamboo industry in India.
v) To promote skill development, capacity building, awareness generation from development of bamboo sector from production to market demand.
vi) To realign efforts so as to reduce dependency on import of bamboo and bamboo products by way of improved productivity and suitability of domestic raw material for industry, so as to enhance income of the primary producers.
The salient features of the restructured National Bamboo Mission are as follows:
i) Production of genetically superior planting material of bamboo species with commercial and industrial demand for plantations.
ii) Adoption of end to end solution i.e. complete value chain approach starting from bamboo growers to consumers. Focus is given on production and productivity enhancement and good agronomic practices, treatment, processing, product development, and marketing in an integrated manner adopting cluster approach involving inter alia Farmers Producers Organizations and Cooperatives.
iii) Mission has been developed as a platform for integration of Ministries/ Departments/ Agencies with implementation responsibilities based on their competency and allocation of business rules, ensuring appropriate synergy and seamless development process.
iv) Capacity building of the officials, field functionaries, entrepreneurs and farmers through skill development and trainings is emphasized.
v) Focus on Research & Development (R&D) to increase the production and productivity of bamboo by identifying its superior clones, improvement of processing technology, development of new products and tools & machinery, etc.
(b): Details of bamboo bearing area in recorded forest area of the country including Karnataka (as per India State of Forest Report (ISFR) 2019) is given at Annexure I. Regarding bamboo outside forest (as per India State of Forest Report (ISFR) 2019) in Trees Outside Forests (TOF) areas the total number of culms estimated at National level are 3046 million with an equivalent green weight of 1973 million tons.
(c): The funds are released based on the approved Annual Action Plan from the States and Bamboo Technical Support Groups (BTSGs). Details of funds released under NBM in last three years and the current year to the States including Karnataka is given at Annexure II. Funds were released in 2016-17 and 2017-18 only for maintenance of plantations raised in previous years.
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