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World Bamboo Day - 18 September 2026

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n The restructured National Bamboo Mission promotes bamboo
What was once cultivation, processing, and marketing across 24 states and Union
viewed as a burden Territories.
is today imparting
new momentum to n The mission supports farmers and MSMEs through financial
assistance, the formation of FPOs (Farmer Producer
employment, business, Organizations), and skill development.
and innovation. That
sector is none other n India has a bamboo coverage area of 13.96 million hectares. With
than bamboo, where 136 species (125 native and 11 exotic), it ranks second only to
China in terms of bamboo diversity.
India is scaling new
heights of success.
Under colonial-era laws,
bamboo was classified
as a tree, and the In 2017, by amending the
associated regulations law, we removed bamboo
were extremely from the tree category, and
stringent. Consequently, the results are evident to
people shied away everyone. Today, the bamboo
from bamboo-related sector is flourishing across the
enterprises; however, a entire Northeast. People are
major transformation continuously innovating to
swept across the add value to it.
country when the Narendra Modi,
Central Government Prime Minister
redefined bamboo...

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