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An agricultural training program supported by IFC has helped 500 farmers of Thanh Hoa, one of the poorest provinces in Vietnam, to use sustainable farming practices to increase their revenue and enter the supply chain of international companies.
With Treehouses of Hawaii and architect David Greenberg, BT is building bamboo wall, roof and floor panels for two award winning designs of the International Treehouse Competition.
The species in the genus Phyllostachys that are naturalized in Arkansas are large, evergreen, rhizometous and colonial, arborescent grasses. They can range in height from 3 to about 23 meters tall (the latter in the case of P. bambusoides).
The stems, or 'culms', can range in height from a few centimeters to 40 metres, with stem diameters ranging from 1 mm to 30 cm. The stems are jointed, with regular nodes; each node bears one leaf, and may also have one to several side branches.
Bamboo is one of the fastest growing, most versatile, 'woody' plants with highest productivity in the world, and is annually renewable and harvestable if managed appropriately.
The stems, or 'culms', can range in height from a few centimeters to 40 metres, with stem diameters ranging from 1 mm to 30 cm. The stems are jointed, with regular nodes; each node bears one leaf, and may also have one to several side branches.
An environmental, economic and practical assessment of bamboo as a building material for supporting structures. Construction and Building Materials 11/01/2006 van der Lugt, P. van den Dobbelsteen, A.A.J.F. Janssen, J.J.A.
It absorbs water faster than most plants and is used in some parts of the world for cleaning sewage. Even more important, it soaks up heavy metals. It is a potential answer to polluted waters.
This piece of plant of material is something many of us grew up with and took to go fishing. It is long and slender and very strong. To most people, bamboo conjures up images of giant pandas in rain-forest jungles. But it's not as exotic as some folks think.
Bamboos include over 1,000 species of woody, perennial grasses in more than 100 genera. Most botanists place them in the tribe Bambuseae within the grass family Poaceae, a large family of 10,000 species and at least 600 genera.