Bamboo Bambusa spp
- Different species of bamboo can be found in Nepal.
- It can be grown up to 2000 meters.
- It is grown for fodder, and for other uses such as pillars, fence and baskets etc.
- Its young shoot can be used as vegetable.
- It is perennial grass with woody culms from rhizomes.
- It has fibrous root system which competes with agriculture crops in an agroforestry system.
- Traditionally propagated by vegetative methods, but seedlings can be produced by seeds.
- Seeds have 75 -92% germination capacity.
- The most serious pests of bamboo are larvae of shoot borer, and moths.
- It is suitable for planting along gullies and soil erosion prone areas.