International Training Workshop on Bamboo Propagation (Sympodial), Management and Harvesting: Methods, Policy Issues and Strategies

The International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR) and the *Centre for Indian Bamboo Resource & Technology (CIBART) are jointly organizing an International Training Workshop on Bamboo Propagation, Management and Harvesting: Methods, Policy Issues and Strategies in India, 27th February to 5 March 2006. The event will be held at the Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi, Thrissur, Kerala State. Bamboo and rattan (cane) play a significant role in creation of employment and income generation activities in an ecologically sustainable manner. Worldwide trade in these two commodities is currently estimated at US$14 billion per year. Several millions of people in many parts of Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean depend on these plants for their livelihood and cash income. Changing socio-economic needs and development options have necessitated interventions that would reposition these traditional sectors so as to maximize benefits to the primary producers and processors, who are mostly poor farmers and artisans. Training and capacity building are two of the tools that INBAR has been using to equip the people involved in bamboo and rattan sectors with the knowledge and skill sets needed to address the challenges posed by the 21st Century economy. INBAR has been organizing such training and capacity building workshops successfully in China, where INBAR has its headquarters, for some time now, and has started replicating them in other parts of the world. The INBAR-CIBART training program being held at KFRI would focus on propagation and management of the sympodial type of bamboo - the type that forms clumps and grows as a cluster in one spot. A good majority of useful bamboos are sympodial and woody, and are used in industries, and by the communities and artisans for making a wide range of bamboo products. Their propagation, management and harvesting are different from those of monopodial bamboos. India has about 130 species out of which over 100 are of sympodial bamboos belonging to 18 genera. The workshop aims to impart knowledge and skill sets to people involved in bamboo and rattan sectors, in the fields of production, processing, management, marketing and policy-making. In view of the need to maximizing resource use, the workshop will emphasize the training of trainers, besides focusing of awareness creation for optimizing income and employment generation opportunities. The training programme will involve class-room and hands-on sessions, supported by on-field activities and field visits wherever possible.

What	Convention
When	2006-02-27 09:00 to 2006-03-05 22:00
Where	Kerala Forest Research Institute, India
Contact Email	info@inbar.int
Contact Phone	+86-10-6470 6161
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