Fig. 11. Showing Bamboo growing area in India

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poor man's timber in India. The most plentiful bamboo is found in India with a 14-million-hectare bamboo forest field, India has a huge resource for bamboo. Fig 10. Showing Bamboo as a structure. https://www.modlar.com/news/145/bamboo-as-aconstruction-material/

India holds the biggest region on earth and the 2nd largest bamboo reserves, although its factories lack access to raw materials. The country's bamboo industry is still at a nascent level, which is 4% of the global bamboo economy. Major consumers of bamboo in the country include the paper industry, construction sector, handicrafts and small and cottage industries (APN, GLOBAL

CHANGE RESEARCH, CANSA).

3.2.1 Bamboo Resources in India

In terms of available resources, India is the world's second largest bamboo producing country after China (Forest Survey of India [FSI], 2011). Nationwide, India holds 37.8 percent of the overall bamboo nature reserve, although twenty % nature reserves are bamboo. In India there are 125 indigenous and 11 exotic species of bamboo belonging to 23 genera (FSI, 201)

Bamboos are present in almost all parts of the world except Kashmir, where there is no natural bamboo. Bamboos are amongst the world's leading plants due to a distinctive rhizomedependent mechanism and its growth becomes significantly faster than just about any other plant species. They are sustainable and highly flexible, multi-purpose tools. It is also used as a genuinely excellent green building material and is twice as strong as concrete and marginally stronger than