Lok Sabha Question No. 116 (STARRED), answered on 2025-02-11
Subject: Bamboo Cultivation
Ministry: AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
Asked by: Shri Arun Kumar Sagar

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 116

TO BE ANSWERED ON 11 TH  FEBRUARY, 2025

## BAMBOO CULTIVATION

- *116. SHRI ARUN KUMAR SAGAR:

Will the Minister of AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE क ृ िष एवं िकसान कʞाण मंũी be pleased to state:

- (a) whether there is a great potential for bamboo cultivation in Shahjahanpur Parliamentary Constituency  of  Uttar  Pradesh  through  which  Ganga,  Bahgul,  Khannaut, Garra, Ramganga and Deoha rivers pass and if so, the details thereof; and
- (b) whether the  Government  has  taken/proposes  to  take  any  steps  to  promote  bamboo cultivation in the said Constituency and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE (SHRI SHIVRAJ SINGH CHOUHAN)

- क ृ िष एवं िकसान कʞाण मंũी (a) & (b): A Statement is laid on the table of the House.

## STATEMENT  MADE  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (a)  &  (b)  OF  LOK  SABHA  STARRED QUESTION NO. 116 REGARDING BAMBOO CULTIVATION RAISED BY SHRI ARUN KUMAR SAGAR, MP DUE FOR REPLY ON 11 TH  FEBRUARY, 2025

(a) & (b): Bamboo is vitally important from ecological, commercial, and socio-economic perspectives. It holds a unique position in the plant kingdom due to its distribution, diversity, and numerous uses in the tropics and subtropics. With over 1,500 documented applications, bamboo  is  extensively  used  in  paper  and  rayon-textile  manufacturing,  construction, architecture, engineering, handicrafts, food, and medicine. Environmentally, bamboo helps reduce air and water pollution, mitigate land degradation, sequester carbon, and combat climate change.

The restructured National Bamboo Mission (NBM) has been launched as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme in 2018-19. NBM provides assistance to both the Government & private sectors for the propagation, cultivation of bamboo in non-forest land and patta land of Forest Rights  Act  (FRA)  2006  beneficiaries,  bamboo  treatment,  establishment  of  markets, incubation centres,  value  added  product  development  & processing and  development of tools & equipments. The funding pattern is 60:40 between Centre and State Government for all  States  except  NE  &  Hilly  States,  where  it  is  90:10  and  100%  in  case  of  Union Territories/Bamboo Technology Support Groups (BTSGs) and National Level Agencies.

Major  objectives  of  the  Mission  are  to  increase  the  availability  of  quality  planting materials,  area  expansion  of  bamboo  cultivation,  improve  post-harvest  management, primary treatment and seasoning, preservation technologies, market infrastructure, product development,  promote  skill  development  and  re-align  efforts  to  reduce  dependency  on import of bamboo and bamboo products.

The restructured NBM is being implemented in Uttar Pradesh since 2019-20. Bareilly Bamboo  cluster  under  NBM  is  Operational  in  Shahjahanpur  District.  Under  the  NBM, activities i.e. Nursery establishment (03 Nos), Bamboo Plantation (104 ha), Common Facility Centres  (01  Nos),  Bamboo  Bazaar  (01  No)  Bamboo  Treatment  Plant  (01  No)  and Carbonization Plant (01 No) have been established in the areas surrounding Shahjahanpur Parliamentary Constituency of Uttar Pradesh State. The details of the activities undertaken in these areas are given below.

| Details of the physical progress of NBM in and around Shahjahanpur Parliamentary Constituency   | Details of the physical progress of NBM in and around Shahjahanpur Parliamentary Constituency   | Details of the physical progress of NBM in and around Shahjahanpur Parliamentary Constituency   | Details of the physical progress of NBM in and around Shahjahanpur Parliamentary Constituency         |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Name of District                                                                                | Plantation Area (In ha)                                                                         | Nursery Established (In Nos)                                                                    | Activities for development of Bamboo Value Chain                                                      |
| Shahjahanpur                                                                                    | 31.00                                                                                           | 01                                                                                              |                                                                                                       |
| Bareilly                                                                                        | 18.00                                                                                           | 01                                                                                              | 01Common Facility Centre (CFC), 01Bamboo Bazaar, 01 Bamboo Treatment Plant and 01 Carbonization Plant |
| Sitapur                                                                                         | 24.00                                                                                           | 01                                                                                              |                                                                                                       |
| Pilibhit                                                                                        | 17.00                                                                                           | 00                                                                                              |                                                                                                       |
| Lakhimpur Kheri                                                                                 | 14.00                                                                                           | 00                                                                                              |                                                                                                       |
| Total                                                                                           | 104                                                                                             | 03                                                                                              | 04                                                                                                    |

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