World Bamboo Day 2025: How Well Do You Know About the “National Bamboo Mission”?

These days we often come across the trend and culture of gifting bamboo plants to friends and relatives. Do they ever think about the reason and value of bamboo? Now here comes the value of World Bamboo Day observed around the world on 18th of September.
As India is the second largest bamboo producer in the world, for this India’s National Bamboo Mission’s role we can’t overlook.

Here we are highlighting some of the important pointers about the “National Bamboo Mission & Bamboo Cover in India”, that you all need to know.

Restructured National Bamboo Mission started in 2018 under Economic Affairs.
It aims at promoting holistic growth of the bamboo sector by adopting areas in specific regions to increase its cover.

It promotes sustainable harvest using Scientific Methods.
Provides training to make bamboo related products.
Promotes manufacturing and sales of bamboo based products.

This effort has resulted in the extensive increase of bamboo cover India by 13.96 million hectare with 136 species.

This miracle grass is not just precious in terms of nature and economy but also a key to avoid pollution as bamboo is an excellent alternative for Plastic. So plant and save this miracle grass as much as you can.