New Bamboo Hybrid Can Be The Solution For Biomass Power Plants And Worldwide Deforestation

Bamboo Sur introduce a New Bamboo Hybrid that can be the
solution for biomass power plants and worldwide deforestation

(MMD Newswire) February 2, 2010 – – Bamboo Sur introduces a
new, thick-walled hybrid bamboo clone for biomass plantations.
This fast growing bamboo tree can be cultivated on non-arable land
to produce sustainable, cost effective biomass energy crop.

Scientists have conducted several biotechnology research and
plant breeding in bamboo which led to the development of a hybrid
bamboo that will be the solution for energy, paper pulp and bamboo
charcoal production. The hybrid bamboo plant is not a genetically
modified organism; rather it is a product of conventional breeding.
Hybrid bamboo can grow in all types of soil. The preferred soil is
light soil, loamy soil, red soil and sandy loam soil.

Just after a three year gestation period, a one acre yield will be an
amazing 40 m tons, with 8-10% moisture and less than 1% ash
content. A well-grown hybrid bamboo plantation is able to sequester
close to 60 tons of carbon-dioxide in every acre annually which is 80
CER of carbon trading. Lacking thorns, it’s easy to cultivate and
harvest.

Hybrid Bamboo properties include:

– Thorn-less
– Thick-walled
– Disease free
– Non-flowering, sterile
– Grows 1 to 3 Ft per day
– Moisture content is 10-18%
– Ash Content less than 1%
– Cultivation on non-arable land
– Perennial, replanting not necessary
– Each acre absorbs 80 tons of carbon-dioxide per year

Extremely high biomass yield

Under intensive cultivation with the population of 1000 plants per
acre (2.471 plants per hectare), the biomass yield starts from:

– 2nd year @ 30.3 tons per acre (75 tons per hectare)
– 3rd year @ 40.5 tons per acre (100 tons per hectare)
– 4th year @ 50.5 tons per acre (125 tons per hectare)
– 5th year + @ 60.5 tons per acre (150 tons per hectare)
– 8th year + @ 64.5 tons per acre (160 tons per hectare)

About Bamboo Sur:

Bamboo Sur specializes in alternative fuel methods. They are
experts in developing and managing bamboo plantations,
consulting on mass propagation of bamboos and advising state
governments and farmers for development of bamboo on a mega
scale.

Bamboo Sur has contractually secured up to 1000 hectares of
farmland in India, South Europe and Africa to plant this new hybrid
bamboo.

Contact information:
J. Van de Ven
Phone: + 32 492 76 7416
Email: info@bamboo-plants.eu
Website: www.bamboo-plants.eu and www.biomass-bamboo.com