How we work
1. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Objectives
- Capacity building
- Village feasibility study
- Training for farmers
Activities
- Identification and social assessment
- Forest resources mapping.
- Market potential analysis and assessment.
- Standard harvesting technique and dump structure.
- Potential companion plant.
- Soil reparation technique.
- Sustainable harvesting.
- Pest control.
- Agro-ecosystem management.
Deliverables
Cooperative of bamboo farmers
Social forestry permit development
- Business plan for cooperative
2. COCOON NURSERY PROCESS
Objectives
- To grow plantings to a size that ensures their survival and their readiness to be transplanted to the local landscape conditions.
Activities
- 70,000 bamboo cuttings
- Site preparation of 10 Hectares area
- Installation of irrigation system with water capacity minimum of 5000 L per day
Deliverables
- 70,000 plantings in the ground
- Plantings verified as suitable for landscape conditions.
3. PRESERVATION
Objectives
- To teach preservation techniques to the community.
Activities
- Build local preservation Centre.
- Ensure compliance with international standards.
- Training on production of durable bamboo products.
Deliverables
- Produce and sell 20,000 preserved bamboo strips suitable for local handicrafts.
- Produce and sell 1,000 preserved poles suitable for the local construction industry.
4. BAMBOO FORESTRY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Objectives
- Ensure a sustainable harvest
- Owner identification for individual poles
- Stock takes of clumps
Activities
- Coding Individual culms for year of harvest, including owner codes & clump codes.
- Set up Management System
- Survey and verification of coding
- Mounding to increase harvest yield
- Sustainable harvest team activation
- Transport and logistics
Deliverables
Sustainable Bamboo Forestry System
5. COMMUNITY BASED FACTORY
Objectives
- To grow plantings to a size that ensures their survival and their readiness to be transplanted to the local landscape conditions.
Activities
Every bamboo farmer community has one production unit of bamboo
Deliverables
- The products are strips and pellets
- One cooperative produces 3 tons of bamboo strips and pellets per day.
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