Environmentally friendly
Bamboo is evergreen and grows new culms (and leaves) every year. Because of this and the high yield of biomass, bamboo is known to produce up 35% more oxygen than a hardwood timber forest of equal area. This means that bamboo forests will help reduce CO2 build-up in the atmosphere.
Bamboo as a timber resource, is harvestable on a yearly basis since it produces new shoots which grow from the ground up to its full height each year. Thus, each year mature bamboo culms (timber) are selectively harvested which means that there will never be any clear-felling of bamboo plantations. This ensures that precious top-soils are held in place and that theres no loss of animal habitats and less leaching of arable land.
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Bamboo is a high-yeild crop, with volume of timber per hectare per year far surpassing that of hardwood forests. This means that a bamboo plantation requires less land to produce the same volume of timber that a pine or hardwood plantation would produce.