FHU3209 Agroforestry (Semester 2, Session 2017/2018) Agroforestry News (May 2018) | Page 6

Agroforestry is the integration of crops in a forest species plantation. The objectives of Eco-Bamboo Sdn.Bhd. is to increase the productivity, help the local community to raise their life standard and mitigate the climate change.

amboo plantation is a new cultivation practiced in Malaysia. Most of the time, bamboo plantation in Malaysia only focusing on

food production which the young shoot of the bamboo is being harvested for local marketing distribution.

Therefore, Eco-Bamboo Sdn. Bhd. had seen an opportunity to breakthrough the market of bamboo as forest product. Our company aims to be the pioneer plantation of agroforestry bamboo product to supply the demand for producing the same product as from the forest timber plantation market.

The availability and advancement of technology and the never-ending researches made by scientist, non-timber plant such as bamboo have been discovered for its potential for production of bamboo-plywood. The strength of different bamboo species have been tested to ensure its durability and quality of the newly invented products.

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"WITH THE ADVANCEMENT OF TECHNOLOGY AND adequate technology, nothing is useless. if a bamboo can be use as construction materials, why not we treat 'em the same as for timber?" - CEo, Eco-Bamboo Sdn. Bhd.

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ariety of bamboo species make the vast use of the bamboo. Bamboo are previously known as 'poor people timber', have been

discovered for its golden value of potential.

China have breakthrough the market for bamboo flooring since the year of 2015 and received high demand from all over the world. Now, it is time to raise the economics of Malaysia with our local species to supply the local market and internationally.

Besides, our company plantation is not an intensive cultivation plantation, we are implementing the concept of agroforestry, specifically agrisilvicultural practice. Agroforestry is the integration of crops in a forest species plantation. The objectives of Eco-Bamboo Sdn.Bhd. is to increase the productivity, help the local community to raise their life standard and mitigate the climate change. We are looking forward to drive the agroforestry economics with effort to conserve the environment.