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A vendor displays bamboo items at a roadside market at Rajmai in Sivasagar district of Assam on the eve of World Bamboo Day on September 17, 2012. The focus of the World Bamboo Congress, started in Thailand in 2009 to promote and develop Brahmaputra-Mekong Valley axis for sustainable bamboo development, The World Bamboo Organisation (WBO) which has declared September 18 as World Bamboo Day with a vision to explore possibilities of mass utilization of bamboo as replacement of timber to play its role in climate change. More than 66% of the total bamboo yield comes from Northeastern states of India. Planning Commission estimates that bamboo could provide employment to nearly 50 million people, particularly the poorest forest-dependent communities. The productivity per hectare in India is one-fifth of that in China and the annual turnover of the bamboo sector in China is 12 times that of India. Photo by Luit Chaliha/Indian Photo Agency
A vendor displays bamboo items at a roadside market at Rajmai in Sivasagar district of Assam on the eve of World Bamboo Day on September 17, 2012. The focus of the World Bamboo Congress, started in Thailand in 2009 to promote and develop Brahmaputra-Mekong Valley axis for sustainable bamboo development, The World Bamboo Organisation (WBO) which has declared September 18 as World Bamboo Day with a vision to explore possibilities of mass utilization of bamboo as replacement of timber to play its role in climate change. More than 66% of the total bamboo yield comes from Northeastern states of India. Planning Commission estimates that bamboo could provide employment to nearly 50 million people, particularly the poorest forest-dependent communities. The productivity per hectare in India is one-fifth of that in China and the annual turnover of the bamboo sector in China is 12 times that of India. Photo by Luit Chaliha/Indian Photo Agency
