Nagaland Bamboo Development Agency

Nagaland Bamboo Development Agency

The Government of Nagaland notified its Bamboo Policy on 15th March 2004. The Nagaland Bamboo Development Agency was established to pursue and implement the policy initiative of the State Bamboo Policy. The agency is a registered society under the Societies Registration Act. The agency as mandated is implementing bamboo development programmes and projects with the assistance of the central Government of India through the National Bamboo Mission and the National Mission on Bamboo Applications, the State Government and also institutions both from within the country and aboard. The implementation of the programmes and projects are being taken up in a mission mode.

The principal objectives of the NBDA mission are:

1. Develop bamboo as an instrument of poverty alleviation and employment generation particularly in the rural sector.
2. Diversify, modernize and expand value added bamboo industries through application of modern technology, capacity building and financial support.
3. Undertake the development of captive bamboo plantations so as to meet the raw material requirements of the industry and at the same time tap the attributes of bamboo for the conservation of the forest and environment.

And towards the achievement of these objectives, the Nagaland Bamboo Development Agency is focusing on the following primary and secondary activities.
• Awareness generation and community sensitization - Formation of bamboo clusters and Village Bamboo Development Committees.
• Skill up-gradation, trainings and capacity building.
• Technology sourcing and dissemination.
• Undertake scientifically managed bamboo plantation of commercially viable bamboo species focus to areas with proper road connectivity in place.
• Support value added entrepreneurial activity by way of soft loans/grants and infrastructure developments.
• Undertaking pilot enterprise projects through Public Private Participation.
• Revitalizing handicrafts with new design and technology.
• Market networking and development.
• Establishment of series of primary processing units in the cluster areas in close proximity to the resource base. (Integrated cluster development with one cluster one product approach).
• Promotion of bamboo high-end structural applications for bamboo constructions.



Nagaland Bamboo Resource Centre (NBRC):

An important step taken by the Nagaland Bamboo Development Agency towards promoting the development of bamboo enterprise has been the establishment of the Nagaland Bamboo Resource Centre (NBRC) at Dimapur, the commercial hub of Nagaland. The Centre was conceptualize to introduce and disseminate bamboo cultivation and processing technology, develop entrepreneurial skill, undertake research and developmental activities, and facilitates the institutionalization of bamboo development as an industry.
The NBRC was initially envisaged to be a Common Facility Centre but soon it has become a location for introduction of new technologies both for propagation and plantation as also new technologies for value addition and processing of Bamboo based products. The facilities, machinery and production lines that have been installed in the NBRC are being fully utilized and the NBRC is also now functioning as an ‘Incubation” centre where the entrepreneurs are made to mature in production techniques and marketing their products. The centre also caters to bamboo Research and Development works and undertakes bamboo development training programmes supported with a fully furnished and functional 50 bedded trainees hostel and an educational conference hall. The agency has already conducted a number of training programmes in this centre. The Centre is located in an area of land measuring 28.54 acres of land.

Currently the following facilities and technologies are already set up at the NBRC for demonstration, production and extension works.
1. A Vegetative propagation nursery with 8.00 lakhs seedling capacity
2. Demonstrative Bamboo Charcoal production kilns in different technologies.
3. Charcoal briquette unit.
4. Bamboo Treatment Plant (Vacuum Pressure Impregnation Plant).
5. Bamboo Stick and Bamboo Sliver production line.
6. Bamboo product drying unit.
7. 120 Kw Bamboo Gasifier unit.
8. Venetian Blind weaving unit.
9. Bamboo fiber sanitary pads production unit.
10. Bamboo handicraft emporia cum consignment sale depot.
11. Bamboo setum cum park.
12. Mini bamboo estate with 10 (ten) working sheds.
13. Children’s park.
14. Green Circle, the Bamboo Amphitheater.
15. Bamboo Exhibition and sales area with 16 inbuilt stalls.
16. A conference hall.
17. A fully furnished 50 bedded trainee’s hostel with separate dormitory for ladies