The document summarizes the bamboo value chain in the Philippines. It outlines the key functions, operators, and enablers at each stage of the chain from nurseries and plantations to primary processing nodes, secondary processing hubs, and end markets. Some key facts presented include there being 141 bamboo nurseries, over 69,000 hectares available for plantation, 34 processing nodes, 17 secondary processing hubs, and 389,000 bamboo products produced annually. The document also lists constraints such as inadequate bamboo pole supply and opportunities such as vast land available and demand for eco-friendly products.

1. Bamboo Value Chain
PHILIPPINE BAMBOO ROADMAP WORKSHOP
Holiday Inn Clark, Pampanga
May 15 -16, 2012
RD BLESILA A. LANTAYONA
Department of Trade and Industry Region – 3
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2. VALUE CHAIN MAP OF THE BAMBOO INDUSTRY
BAMBOO BAMBOO BAMBOO BAMBOO HUB Market/ End
FUNCTIONS NURSERIES PLANTATION NODE users
Potting, Growing/Harvest Primary Milling, Tap portion of
Seedlings -ing/Gathering/Cut Processing Composing, 20% of School
TASKS dispersal, - ting of Bamboo Assembly of desk
R&D Poles/Storing slats bamboo requirement &
desk/engineered local/foreign
production
bamboo products market
SUCs, Farmers/CBFM Farmers/CBFM
Manufacturing/ -DepEd
NGOs/POs/co Coops/assoc. Association
secondary -Exporters
ops Primary
OPERATORS bamboo -Construction
CBFM, bamboo
processing Industry
individual processing
facilities -Hotels
farmers facilities
# of Area
planted Bamboo
N=141 = 13,545.09 ha.
N=34 N=17 Chairs
Area available
=175,000
=69,210.84
DENR, LGUs,
DTI, CITC, DTI,
ENABLERS SUCs, NGOs, DENR, LGUs, NGOs/POs, LGUs , DOLE,
(Meso) DOST, CITC, DepED, DTI,
DA, NGOs, LCCIs , LGUs FIs
DA CLGCFI, ADCL
SUCs
ENABLERS DENR, DTI,
(Macro) DENR, LGUs DTI, DOST DBM, OP,
DENR, LGUs, LCCI
Office of Cong
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3. National Bamboo Industry Profile 2011
Project/Activity No.
Bamboo Nursery
No. of nurseries maintained 141
Bamboo Plantation
No. of hectares available 69,210.84
No. of hectares planted 13,545.09
No. of hectares under the NGP 4,161.555
Bamboo Node
No. of nodes maintained 34
No. of bamboo slats produced 258,048
Bamboo Hub
No. of hubs maintained 17
No. of armchairs/school desks produced 389
(R3 - 279, R6 - 30, R7 – 80)
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4. National Bamboo Industry Profile 2011
Performance
Amount of investment generated P94.79M
Amount of sales generated 44.76M
No. of jobs created 4,806
No. of SMEs assisted 245
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5. Constraints and Opportunities Analysis
Incomplete Inadequate
Limited
Constraints database on supply and high
access to
the existing cost of
financing
plantations bamboo poles
Lack of Inadequate Lack of Lack of
awareness on the commercial technology/ technology/
potential of bamboo appropriate appropriate
bamboo plantation machines machines
Bamboo Nursery Bamboo Primary Secondary End
Plantation Processing Processing
Market
(Node) (Hub)
Huge demand both local and foreign market
Increasing awareness on eco-friendly products
Opportunities Availability of vast tracts of land for bamboo plantation
Presence of support organizations
Inherent ingenuity and craftsmanship
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