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Bamboo Information Centre - India, supported by the International Development Research Centre, Canada, was established at the Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi in July 1989. The primary objective of the Centre is to collect, organise and disseminate information on bamboos of South and South-East Asia. Efforts have been made to collect and document bamboo literature from the area as exhaustively as possible. The Centre has been publishing BIC-India ...
Bamboos, popularly known as giant grasses, with more than 1575 species in the world, occurring in a wide variety of soil and climatic conditions, play an important role in providing livelihood, ecological and food securities to mankind. In India, recognition of the suitability of bamboo for paper pulp in the beginning of twentieth century changed the fate of bamboo which otherwise was considered as weed. Since then there has been a steady decline in the bamboo ...
Teak is one of the most important timber species of the world. Teak plantations are grown extensively not only in its native home range covering India, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Indonesia but also in many other countries in Asia, Africa, Central and South America and the Carribbean Islands. Intensive work has been carried out on different aspects of the species like genetic improvement, provenance trials, selection criteria for superior phenotypes, improved ...