Overturning a difficult situation

With careful planning, problems accompanying bamboo flowering can be overcome

Bamboo trouble

INDIA

Status change

Bamboo as agro-product

Bamboo boom

The cultivation of the grass is now less cumbersome

Careless losses

High-yield variety

Bamboo is key to rural growth

Bamboo bonanza

Cheap method to multiply non-seeding species

Rat menace

The flowering of the bamboo is bad news for the people in Mizoram

When bloom spells doom

Bamboo flowering in Orissa without fresh procurement threatens to drive plant to extinction

A wild food trail

Aparna Pallavi shares a monsoon recipe of Chhattisgarh

High demand for Indian bamboo in Kenya, Ethiopia

Bamboo shoots: Rich in nutrition as well as flavour

Young, edible shoots are rich in vitamins and amino acids

Bamboo for biomass

Bamboo could be a potential source of green gasoline

Can the Northeast become a trade hub?

Or, will they be mere transit points?

Between fungi

For a change

Why India needs to revise its forest cover targets

Tree plantations by the State forest departments are driven by national policies and forest cover targets; here is why they should be revised

So long, An An: World’s oldest male giant panda dies in Hong Kong

Sanitary napkins with bamboo pulp score over regular pads

Rodents destroy crops in Mizoram

Centre approves MSP for minor forest produce

Decision will not apply to bamboo and tendu

The fundamental shift

Return to the basics: create jobs in the hinterland

Losing shine

Falling profits discourage silk farmers

Identity crisis

Whether bamboo is a grass or a tree is a question of survival for many