It was a pleasure to host DR. RAJESH KAUSHAL, Principal Scientist and DR JAGMOHAN SINGH TOMAR from INDIAN INSTITUTE of SOIL and WATER CONSERVATION - who had come to see our work on 2 tier agriculture systems, with BAMBOO as an Overstory and CYMBOPOGONS as an understory.
Good planting material of known provenance is very essential for success of BAMBOO AGRO FORESTRY SYSTEMS. Last year, we had made our RHIZOME BANK under the SMALL NURSERY SCHEMES of National Bamboo Mission. The RHIZOME Nursery has come up well and next year we shall be going in for dedicated bamboo plantations.
Some of the rare genotypes in our collections are enumerated below.
- BAMBUSA BALCOOA
- BAMBUSA NUTAANS
- BAMBUSA LAKO
- GUADUA ANGUSTIFOLIA
- GUADUA CHAKOENSIS
- TULDA
- OLIVERII
- STOCKSII
- VULGARIS
Since the latent period for a rhizome nursery is about 2 years we have included CYMBOPOGONS as an understory crop. This is also a 25 year research saga for evolving tailor made products.