Bamboo potencial in Brazil! Machinery, process, landscape restoration, sustainable agroforestry, fibers,

1. Bamboo and Rattan in BRICS
Brazil
2018 Jun 25th
China National Convention Center
2018 Global Bamboo and Rattan Congress
Brazilian Bamboo Producers Association
Guilherme Korte
aprobambu@gmail.com
+5511998918888 Foto: Ximena Londono

2. Juta malva
Sisal
Curauá
Taboa
Piteira
Ananas erectifolius)

3. Brazil
7.400.000 rural properties 54% less than 50 hectareas
Legal reserve, Permanent protected areas, natural park,
native tribes lands – 60% Rivers and lakes – 9%
Agriculture – 30% 250 million hectares
180 m in pastures 70 millions in crops
Rattan - Small farmers, Manual crop
Low tecnology in countryside

4. CÂMARA SETORIAL DE FIBRAS NATURAIS - CSFN
CSFN - 17ª R0 – 20/11/2017 - Panorama das fibras no Brasil e
cenários futuros – Debate pelo Colegiado
10
Sisal Brasil - Exportador
66.292
80.179
116.762
60.126
69.592 66.239 61.746
50.632
97.946
111.231
69.865
74.506
95.400 91.962
84.651
69.414
-
20.000
40.000
60.000
80.000
100.000
120.000
140.000
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017*
Sisal Brasil - Produção x Exportação - t
Exportação Produção
Fontes = Produção: Conab/Imetodolica de extrapolação das exportações – Exportações:: MDIC/AliceWeb
* 2017 estimado com base nas importações realizadas até out/17
- 21%

5. CÂMARA SETORIAL DE FIBRAS NATURAIS - CSFN
CSFN - 17ª R0 – 20/11/2017 - Panorama das fibras no Brasil e
cenários futuros – Debate pelo Colegiado
27
Fibras Naturais do Brasil – Realidade Conhecida

6. EMBRAPA NORTH
FARMERS TRAINING DAY

7. Bamboo in Brazil
252 species of native bamboos
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60% Atlantic forest; 30% in Amazon and 10% in Savanas
Giant grass as corn and sugarcane
It’s a crop
Agricultural product
16 million of hectares of degraded áreas can be covered with bamboo agroforestry

8. Blend bioenergy
Bamboo with Eucaliptus
50% + 50%
No data avaiable on bamboo plantation - all around
1812 Chinese comes to Brazil brings some chinese bamboo
1908 Japanese arrive in Brazil also brings some bamboo

9. “Let there be no meat on my plate. There must be bamboo
in my farm”
Su Shi (1037 – 1101) Chinese poet
Apoclada simplex

10. Its deep root symbolizes firmness, its erect stalk represents honor, its
empty interior the modesty and its exterior clears fidelity.
Bai Juyi 白居易 772 – 846 Chinese poet
Guadua chacoensis