TNPSC Thervupettagam

Bheema Bamboo

May 26 , 2021 1283 days 1293 0
  • The Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) has designed an ‘oxygen park’ within its premises at Coimbatore with Beema or Bheema Bamboo.
  • Beema Bamboo is a superior clone, selected from Bambusa balcooa, a higher biomass yielding bamboo species.
  • This bamboo does not produce any seed and does not die also for several hundred years and keeps growing.
  • This species is the best ‘carbon sink’ to mitigate carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
  • A four-year-old bamboo may absorb over 400 kg of CO2 per annum.
  • A fully-grown bamboo tree generates over 300 kg of oxygen annually.

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