Bamboo Forest Folk

Wealth of non-timber forest products are part of the wealth of forest resources in Indonesia may be one alternative to reducing the use of wood in the forest are increasingly limited existence. Bamboo one of them, now highly developed use. At first only as household goods, are now increasingly evolved into a variety of industrial purposes, so for people in rural areas are categorized as primary support their economy.

One thing that is profitable from the bamboo plant is growing quite done only once, easily grown in suitable habitat and then stayed to harvest it. In the course of growth is affected by the ecological conditions, cropping patterns and appropriate maintenance techniques and thus environmental factors are important to know in order to produce optimally.

Increased use of several types of bamboo plants bamboo causes uncontrolled people exploited without cultivation balanced with action. Vandalism and destruction of biological diversity is an effort harvest without cultivation, logging and introduce new types. Not conservation culture efforts due to the bamboo-pole stands of bamboo, which generally live in the land of the people seems to still be considered adequate. Besides the information and knowledge about the cultivation of bamboo species is still lacking as well as an introduction to the types of bamboo in Indonesia and its uses. For that we need a bamboo plant development tools, especially on those species which generally have been used or not known by the public but has many benefits.