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.