The document provides instructions for establishing a bamboo plantation, including identifying stakeholders, securing funding and land, setting up a nursery, propagating bamboo through pole planting, and ongoing plantation management. Key steps include inventorying existing bamboo forests, identifying a champion organization, preparing the soil and seed beds, burying bamboo poles with buds, and regular maintenance of the growing clumps. The goal is to establish sustainable bamboo cultivation and conservation areas.

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8. Establishment Nursery

10. Prepare the soil for burning

11. Build a bonfire to burn the soil

12. Select 1 to 2 yrs old culms with healthy buds

13. Cut the poles to 1m length, taking care not to damage the buds. Both ends of the cut must be 10cm from the nodes.

14. Make a hole in every internodes perpendicular to the branch plane.

15. Fill the culm cavities with a mixture of 30% burnt soil and 70% of top soil.

16. Water the culms.

17. Prepare the seed bed 1.5m wide.

18. Bury the poles in the seed bed with the holes on the top. Put hay, straw, bagasse or similar materials on top of the bed to minimize water evaporation.

22. Plantation Management

24. Unmanaged stand

25. Cut all thorns in and around the clump

26. Cut dead and broken poles

27. Make sure all cuts are made just above the root line

28. Cut the in-between poles

29. Fertilize the clump

30. Cover all protruding roots with soil

31. Cover the soil around the clump with bamboo leaves to slow down water evaporation

32. After cleaning

35. WHAT VARIETY?

36. APOS

37. BOTONG

39. BAMBUSETUM

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