What Is Bamboo Lumber?

Bamboo is a tall, fast-growing grass plant with a woody stem. Distributed in tropical, subtropical to warm temperate regions, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Indian Ocean and Pacific Islands are the most concentrated and have the most species. The bamboo branches are tall, slender, with four seasons, green, and frosty, and they are loved by the Chinese people. They are known as "Meilan Bamboo and Chrysanthemum" four gentlemen, "Mei Songzhu" and three old friends. There are many ancient and modern Chinese literati, bamboo chanters.

Bamboo

At present, China's bamboo industry has maintained rapid growth year after year. The market size has maintained a growth rate of more than 10%. The overall development of the industry is in a good state. Enterprise innovation and new technology and new product development have sprung up. The enthusiasm for developing bamboo resources in various places is very high. The bamboo industry has become a pillar industry for local economic and social development, and has become a major source of economic income for mountain farmers.

In recent years, countries have increasingly attached importance to environmental protection, global timber supplies have gradually decreased, and the rational use and development of bamboo resources have received increasing attention. Bamboo products are becoming one of the important consumer products in developed countries and regions. China's bamboo resource cultivation, processing and utilization technology leads the world and occupies a pivotal position in the global bamboo industry. At present, China's bamboo industry has formed an emerging industry with great potential and vitality from resource cultivation, processing and utilization to export trade, and then to bamboo ecological tourism.

Bamboo background

With the implementation of China's natural forest banning policy and the policy of returning farmland to forests, the contradiction between wood supply and demand has become increasingly tense, and it is practical to implement "substitution of bamboo with wood" in some areas. After the natural forest was banned, China's timber supply decreased by about 200 million cubic meters per year, and the gap between supply and demand was about 450 million cubic meters per year. As a building material, every 60 bamboos can replace 1 cubic meter of wood.

Bamboo demand and market

Bamboo flooring is the representative product of China's bamboo industry. It is hard and wear-resistant, and the texture is delicate. The ex-factory price is about 150 yuan per square meter, while the raw materials only need 4 bamboos and the cost is about 40 yuan. The country's high-yielding bamboo forests (through a certain planting standard management and management, bamboo output that reaches a certain standard, relatively low-yielding bamboo forests) only accounts for about 25% of the total area of bamboo forests, intensive management More means of production and labor. Adopting new technical measures to carry out intensive farming. The intensive operation is to increase the total product volume by increasing the output per unit area. The intensive operation method is used to develop agriculture, which is called "agricultural intensification" ".) The area of bamboo forests is not large, and the area of low-yield, low-quality, and inefficient bamboo forests is still quite large. The potential for improving bamboo forest management levels and benefits is huge.