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Report on process, market & business opportunity report on edible bamboo shoot prepared by: Engineering Resources Group, Bangalore in association with CPF, FRESH and Delphi

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In the Bamboo growing areas of the North East of India, Bamboo has been a very significant resource plant in the life of the ethnic populace, its usage extending and visible in every aspect of their existence in this region. Such usage is also observed at every place wherever Bamboo is available as a natural resource.
The consumption of the harvested shoot of Bamboo, as it emerges out of the ground, in various forms, has been more of a necessity rather than a delicacy, for the native population. Traditionally Bamboo Shoot has been a specific to the primary user population in classical regions of natural growth. However, Bamboo management, emerging as an important issue with respect to forests of India in general and more specifically in the North East, has meant a renewed thrust to explore process opportunities for Bamboo Shoot.
Bamboo Shoot is a significant item of consumption in the home. While it is not significant in commercial terms, compared to the volume of business in Bamboo Shoot and derivatives in the Far and South East Asia, it is an item with scope for business development for India.

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