Environment

Crash barriers made of Beema bamboo and coir are being developed as a lowcostsolution as the Centre looks for innovative, newer ways to bring down fatalities andmishaps on roads.

 Beema Bamboo

·        Beema or Bheema bamboo is a type of bamboo engineered to be a stronger, fastgrowingand tall clone of the traditional bamboo found in the Indian subcontinent,especially the North-East. This variety grows well in southern India also.

·         This cloned Bamboo is a superior clone, selected from Bambusabalcooa, a higherBiomass yielding Bamboo species.

·         It is thornless, sterile, fast growing and High yeilding superior bamboo.

·         It can grow in the field for more than hundred years without need for replanting.

·         If it is managed as per the Silvicultural methods it will higher Biomass onsustainable basis.

·         Soil, water requirement and climatic conditions are similar assugarcane crop.

·         Beema Bamboo acts as a Carbon Sink and absorbs excess Carbon-di-oxide in theair three to four times than other trees.

·         Obviously, it is eco-friendly and absorbs 400 to 500 Kg of Carbon-di-oxide everyyear and grows five times faster than other spices of Bamboo.