The government is spearheading a "bamboo revolution" to harness the potential of the world’s tallest grass other than as a material for handicraft and enable the country to get a bigger slice of the $8-billion global market for the material.
Executive Order 879, which was issued in May 2010, created the Philippine Bamboo Industry Development Council (PBIDC) that aims to promote the bamboo industry.
The order directed the use of bamboo for at least 25 percent of the desk and other furniture requirements of public elementary and secondary schools and prioritizing the use of bamboo in furniture and other construction requirements of government agencies.
In 2009, it was estimated that the Department of Education DepEd bought about P1 billion worth of desks every year.
Trade Undersecretary Merly Cruz, in a presentation highlighting the accomplishments of the bamboo industry project, cited the other benefits from planting bamboo: it can significantly help mitigate climate change and reduce impacts of natural disasters.
The Bamboo Network of the Philippines (BambooPhil), an organization composed of Filipino bamboo scientists, advocates and entrepreneurs, also said bamboo is great for erosion control and carbon dioxide control.
It can be tapped as a cash crop because it is fast-growing and easy to propagate.
Celso Lantican of BambooPhil said cost-wise, bamboo is cheaper than wood and, therefore, a good substitute for the wood the country imports from Malaysia and Indonesia.
According to Cruz, the Philippines’ contribution to Asean’s efforts toward large-scale production of bamboo is the reforestation of at least 500,000 hectares with bamboo from 2010 to 2020.
During the first PBIDC meeting in January, Trade Secretary Gregory Domingo, council chair, said bamboo should be competitive in cost against wood to make substitution viable; otherwise, bamboo should be marketed as a premium product through research and development.
While technology is available, the council sees the need for technical assistance and capacity building and training.
Lantican said that raw materials are either insufficient or not suited for the production of certain products. He said massive planting of bamboo should be encouraged.
The council also eyes benchmarking with China, which has developed a breakthrough technology in tissue culture, leading to mass propagation.
Lantican said bamboo farming or plantation costs P30,000 per hectare. The average harvest per hectare is 1,200 culms or poles calculated at 6 culms per clump and 200 clumps per hectare.
Cruz said large-scale bamboo plantations will enable local government units to participate more actively in processing various products, creating jobs and livelihood.
So far, the program has established 11 new nurseries while about 900 new hectares have planted on the propagation side.
On business development, some 25 nodes and eight hubs and one Bamboo Negosyo Village have been set up.
One of the strategies adopted was a "big bro-small bro" subcontracting partnership.
Bambu International Corp. in Iloilo has been subcontracting from eight medium- and small-scale producers and sells bamboo products to the local and export markets.
Before the EO, the DTI had identified engineered bamboo projects under its one-town, one-project (OTOP) program.
OTOP has identified bamboo production and processing as a strategic industry for its potential not only in the domestic but also in the export market.
The industry’s major products come in the form of engineered construction materials.
DTI has forged a strong collaboration with the Department of Natural Resources, with the latter handling the establishment of bamboo nurseries and the growing of cuttings.
The clustering approach has been adopted for bamboo production and processing such that each island will have its own clusters.
In Luzon, Pampanga has been identified as a pilot area and hub for Central Luzon; Abra for Northern Luzon, Laguna for Southern Luzon, and Tarlac, Palawan, and Camarines Sur, among other provinces, as nodes.
In the Visayas, Iloilo and Negros Oriental are hubs and the whole island of Panay is a site of nodes. In Mindanao, General Santos City is the hub with Sarangani, South Cotabato, Davao del Norte, Compostela Valley, Bukidnon, Lanao del Norte, Zamboanga del Sur and Zamboanga Sibugay as nodes.
According to the DTI’s OTOP on bamboo, the tinik and or bayog varieties, which are economically important and the most widely cultivated, are the choice for the project.
The botong and tinik bamboo varieties mature between three to six months and have a gestation period of 4 to 5 years.
As of 2009, the bamboo project has generated P 2.443 million investments, P1.991 million domestic sales, 257 jobs, and created/assisted 57 MSMEs.
Cruz said from meeting the school desk requirements of the DepEd, the project aims to go into higher-end wood products such as wood panels both for the local and export markets.
Laguna served as the first pilot site due to its abundance of water, especially around the Laguna lake.
The Laguna bamboo model was replicated in Iloilo for Visayas and General Santos for Mindanao.
Early in the implementation of the project, DTI was exploring the possibility of exporting bamboo products to Japan, which heavily promotes the use of biodegradable and organic products.
Bamboo belongs to the grass family and has about 1,000 species. It is described as the fastest-growing plant on Earth and has been measured to grow as fast as 121 centimeters or 47.6 inches in one day.
Previous attempts to put up bamboo nurseries in the country had been unsuccessful because of the absence of a market to sell the bamboo harvested and the lack of processing facilities for higher-end applications.
Business Insight Business
Bamboo Biodiversity
Monday, December 5, 2011
Concept Paper on Bamboo Nursery
PROPOSAL STATEMENT:
The Boy Scout of the Philippines, Kidapawan City National High School Outfit 177 would like to have a project that would generate income, sustain awareness in environmental concern, self reliance and training for future engagement on industry development.
The BSP KCNHS Grass of Hope Project is a joint project to be implemented and managed by the Metro Kidapawan Chamber of Commerce and Industry Foundation Incorporated. This is a cost recovery Bamboo Nursery who plans to sell the bamboo propagules to stakeholders like LGU with riverbank erosion problem, Water Districts maintaining a watershed area, reforestation projects and in full support of the National Greening Program of President Aquino Administration and DepEd Secretary Armin Luistro had been looking into the E-Kawayan Technology for armchairs, tables and desks.
GRANT REQUEST:
BSP KCNHS Grass of Hope Project needs and initial amount of PHp 88, 000.00 for the purchase of polybags, garden tools, bamboo propagules, training expense and professional fees and other related expenses in establishing a mini-bamboo nursery in our campus ground.
NEEDS ASSESSMENT/PROBLEM STATEMENT:
Motivation to engage into Income Generating Enterprise is that BSP Kidapawan City has promising youth leaders from which scouting is one of the training ground, moreover, when advancement trainings and regional encampment comes, only those who can afford to shoulder the cost of travel can attend. We tend to solicit on politicians, well off and well meaning individuals and these cycle comes year in, year out. Of course, we do not want to teach our future leaders to always rely on the external assistance and beg for it. We need to slowly diminish the vicious cycle of begging for help, we need to be self – reliant for we are molding our potential leaders to be resourceful enough to solve perennial problems.
ANTICIPATED RESULTS AND METHODS:
The BSP KCNHS would like to initially produce 20,000 ready for planting materials of bamboo propagules (apos, botong, kawayang tinik and bayog variety) after six (6) months. While in the growing and rearing stage, the project partner, Chamber of Commerce will conduct marketing campaign with the LGUs, Water Districts, Private Corporation and other entities interested into bamboo planting and growing in support to the National Greening Program and DepEd’s thrust on leadership training of youth as well as raising environmental awareness campaign. The propagules will be sold at reasonable price so as to generate income and portion of the money raised will be used again for the next cycle of the bamboo propagules growing to cater additional demands on bamboo seedlings. This is a cost recovery project and an income generation to fund scouting events and averting on frequent soliciting of funds to finance scouting related activities.
SUSTAINABILITY AND VIABILITY:
Bamboo propagation does not need sophisticated technology, basically because it belongs to the family of grass, and where grass would grow, it would also grow and the stubborn desire of a grass to proliferate, the bamboo virtually has the characteristic of it. It does not need an extended process of soil analysis for it will thrive as long as there is water, enough sunlight and quality time of care. In five (5) years time, the bamboo grows as a fully grown plant and a ready source for bamboo wood for armchairs, tables and desks. Moreover, the bamboo farmer can start an enterprise with the minimal expense for it does not demand costly farm inputs. It has 5,000 uses according to a published book and global demand of US$10 billion of bamboo market that was waiting to be filled (source: World Bamboo Congress, 2007)
NEW AND UNIQUE:
BSP KCNHS will have a steady stream of income generation to augment their financial needs for trainings and individual development and other projects. This is first in concept on a school based nursery and actively paired by a business sector for the marketing component so as not to hamper the study time of the students involved.
Bamboo Farming is new and innovative way of farm enterprise, this is well introduced in areas where there was no agricultural activities done. It is well recommended to plant along water shed areas, buffer zones and in riverbanks, at 5 x 5 meters quincunx planting method to protect staple crops and erosion. A 1,000 square meters of land strip in the riparian zone planted with bamboo could gain 16,000.00 per month of household income on sale of bamboo poles at 50.00 per pole for engineered bamboo production, after 5 years of incubation period.
With the implementation of EO 26 which is the total log ban, the need for an alternative in wood industry as it needs a replacement and bamboo wood is at par excellence in terms of strength and durability.
PROJECT PROPONENT’S INVOLVEMENT:
BSP KCNHS will hold the day to day activities in watering, weeding and other nursery related activities. They can hire a temporary nursery caretaker on a contract basis to do their part. The MKCCIFI will handle the nursery training, enterprise training and capability building. The latter will also facilitate the marketing and other actual related jobs like deliveries, project monitoring, fund sourcing and among others.
BUDGET SUMMARY:
Projected Expense Amount
Polyurethane Bags 10,000.00
Topsoil 4,000.00
Organic Fertilizer 4,000.00
Garden Tools 10,000.00
Payment for Water and Lights 5,000.00
Capability Building Training (professional Fees and training expense) 30,000.00
Bamboo Propagules 20,000.00
Other related expenses 5,000.00
Total
PHp 88,000.00
Other sources who already committed PHp 20,000.00 for Consultancy Fee (MKCCIFI)
In kind services Php 10,000.00
Project Proponents:
BSP KCNHS Outfit 177
WB Marvin Inting
BSP Coordinator
Neña Cesaria Q. Paren, EdD
BSP Unit Leader
0907 614 4942 / kidapawanbamboo@yahoo.com
METRO KIDAPAWAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND FOUNDATION INC.
2/F Sheer Mktg. Building, Quezon Blvd., Kidapawan City
mkccifi@yahoo.com/ 0908 467 7004
The Boy Scout of the Philippines, Kidapawan City National High School Outfit 177 would like to have a project that would generate income, sustain awareness in environmental concern, self reliance and training for future engagement on industry development.
The BSP KCNHS Grass of Hope Project is a joint project to be implemented and managed by the Metro Kidapawan Chamber of Commerce and Industry Foundation Incorporated. This is a cost recovery Bamboo Nursery who plans to sell the bamboo propagules to stakeholders like LGU with riverbank erosion problem, Water Districts maintaining a watershed area, reforestation projects and in full support of the National Greening Program of President Aquino Administration and DepEd Secretary Armin Luistro had been looking into the E-Kawayan Technology for armchairs, tables and desks.
GRANT REQUEST:
BSP KCNHS Grass of Hope Project needs and initial amount of PHp 88, 000.00 for the purchase of polybags, garden tools, bamboo propagules, training expense and professional fees and other related expenses in establishing a mini-bamboo nursery in our campus ground.
NEEDS ASSESSMENT/PROBLEM STATEMENT:
Motivation to engage into Income Generating Enterprise is that BSP Kidapawan City has promising youth leaders from which scouting is one of the training ground, moreover, when advancement trainings and regional encampment comes, only those who can afford to shoulder the cost of travel can attend. We tend to solicit on politicians, well off and well meaning individuals and these cycle comes year in, year out. Of course, we do not want to teach our future leaders to always rely on the external assistance and beg for it. We need to slowly diminish the vicious cycle of begging for help, we need to be self – reliant for we are molding our potential leaders to be resourceful enough to solve perennial problems.
ANTICIPATED RESULTS AND METHODS:
The BSP KCNHS would like to initially produce 20,000 ready for planting materials of bamboo propagules (apos, botong, kawayang tinik and bayog variety) after six (6) months. While in the growing and rearing stage, the project partner, Chamber of Commerce will conduct marketing campaign with the LGUs, Water Districts, Private Corporation and other entities interested into bamboo planting and growing in support to the National Greening Program and DepEd’s thrust on leadership training of youth as well as raising environmental awareness campaign. The propagules will be sold at reasonable price so as to generate income and portion of the money raised will be used again for the next cycle of the bamboo propagules growing to cater additional demands on bamboo seedlings. This is a cost recovery project and an income generation to fund scouting events and averting on frequent soliciting of funds to finance scouting related activities.
SUSTAINABILITY AND VIABILITY:
Bamboo propagation does not need sophisticated technology, basically because it belongs to the family of grass, and where grass would grow, it would also grow and the stubborn desire of a grass to proliferate, the bamboo virtually has the characteristic of it. It does not need an extended process of soil analysis for it will thrive as long as there is water, enough sunlight and quality time of care. In five (5) years time, the bamboo grows as a fully grown plant and a ready source for bamboo wood for armchairs, tables and desks. Moreover, the bamboo farmer can start an enterprise with the minimal expense for it does not demand costly farm inputs. It has 5,000 uses according to a published book and global demand of US$10 billion of bamboo market that was waiting to be filled (source: World Bamboo Congress, 2007)
NEW AND UNIQUE:
BSP KCNHS will have a steady stream of income generation to augment their financial needs for trainings and individual development and other projects. This is first in concept on a school based nursery and actively paired by a business sector for the marketing component so as not to hamper the study time of the students involved.
Bamboo Farming is new and innovative way of farm enterprise, this is well introduced in areas where there was no agricultural activities done. It is well recommended to plant along water shed areas, buffer zones and in riverbanks, at 5 x 5 meters quincunx planting method to protect staple crops and erosion. A 1,000 square meters of land strip in the riparian zone planted with bamboo could gain 16,000.00 per month of household income on sale of bamboo poles at 50.00 per pole for engineered bamboo production, after 5 years of incubation period.
With the implementation of EO 26 which is the total log ban, the need for an alternative in wood industry as it needs a replacement and bamboo wood is at par excellence in terms of strength and durability.
PROJECT PROPONENT’S INVOLVEMENT:
BSP KCNHS will hold the day to day activities in watering, weeding and other nursery related activities. They can hire a temporary nursery caretaker on a contract basis to do their part. The MKCCIFI will handle the nursery training, enterprise training and capability building. The latter will also facilitate the marketing and other actual related jobs like deliveries, project monitoring, fund sourcing and among others.
BUDGET SUMMARY:
Projected Expense Amount
Polyurethane Bags 10,000.00
Topsoil 4,000.00
Organic Fertilizer 4,000.00
Garden Tools 10,000.00
Payment for Water and Lights 5,000.00
Capability Building Training (professional Fees and training expense) 30,000.00
Bamboo Propagules 20,000.00
Other related expenses 5,000.00
Total
PHp 88,000.00
Other sources who already committed PHp 20,000.00 for Consultancy Fee (MKCCIFI)
In kind services Php 10,000.00
Project Proponents:
BSP KCNHS Outfit 177
WB Marvin Inting
BSP Coordinator
Neña Cesaria Q. Paren, EdD
BSP Unit Leader
0907 614 4942 / kidapawanbamboo@yahoo.com
METRO KIDAPAWAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND FOUNDATION INC.
2/F Sheer Mktg. Building, Quezon Blvd., Kidapawan City
mkccifi@yahoo.com/ 0908 467 7004
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Monday, September 26, 2011
Bamboo Info(source:Bamboonet)
One-Node Culm Cutting Propagation of Giant Bamboo (Dendrocalamus asper) using Intermittent Mist Clonal Propagator
Floresca and Sayo (ISU) developed a technology for the propagation of giant bamboo by using intermittent mist clonal propagator.
Findings
• The mist provides a cooling effect and the cyclic (intermittent) misting provides a controlled environment of low temperature and high humidity; which favors root and shoot development of cuttings.
• Survival rate for one-node culm cuttings reached up to 80% compared to only 20% for branch cuttings.
• Under a glass house (or shed), propagating beds (1 mx 8 m, uncovered) filled with pure sand medium were used. One-node culm cuttings of D. asper were prepared and dipped into root hormone solution.
• Each propagating bed was equally divided to accommodate the cuttings. Automatice misting cycle was set at 10 seconds on and 5 minutes off duration.
• After 60 days, the seedlings were placed in polyethelyne pots filled with ordinary soil and then hardened in the nursery from 0.5 to 1 month.
• Propagation of 300 pieces one-node culm cuttings for 2 - 2.5 months will incur Php6,100 and Php9,000 for inputs and labor, respectively. Sales of 250 pieces of giant bamboo seedlings (assuming 80% survival rate) will have a gross income of P25,000.
Source: PCARRD, 2003. Highlights 2002, Los Baños, Laguna, 214p
Zafaralla and Malab (MMSU) developed a machine called "kawayan tile maker" (KTM) for processing bamboo butts into solid flat bamboo tiles suitable for flooring, parquet, panels, furniture, and handicraft.
The machine has five major operations with only one source of power: crosscutting, knot removing, width sizing, thickness sizing, and tile length cutting. The machine can produce tiles of 20-30 cm wide x 10 mm wide x 100 mm long in 25 seconds with a precision of 86-92%. The conversion output per butt is 69%. Only one operator is needed to operate the machine.
The eventual commercialization of the machine can benefit small-scale bamboo farmers since the cost of fabricating the machine is only US$538.46 or approximately Php28,000.
The machine is designed for village operations and is for pilot testing in areas with sufficient bamboo standes. Alongside is the promotion of bamboo tiles as construction and architectural materials as well as material for the furniture and handicraft industries.
Source: PCARRD, 2003. Highlights 2002, Los Baños, Laguna, 214p.
Glue-laminated bamboo and bamboo-wood combination
Bamboo has been globally recognized as an ecologically friendly substitute to the commonly used timber, Its strength, lightness combined with extraordinary hardness, range in size abundance, easy propagation and short gestation period make it suitable for various construction purposes. Alipon et. al (FPRDI) developed glue-laminated bamboo-wood combination for structural uses.
Two bamboo species, kauayan tinik (Bambusa blumeana) and botong (Dendrocalamus latiflorus) and one timber species, yemane (Gmelina arborea), were used in the study. The samples were laminated by using urea formaldehyde (UF) + ammonium chloride (NH4Cl) as Glue I and UF + isocyanite as Glue II. The effects of species, glue type, and type of laminates (either bamboo-bamboo or bamboo-wood) were evaluated based on dry and wet shear tests.
Findings
• Strength properties in bending and compression parallel to the grain and shear along glue line of laminated bamboo and composite bamboo-wood lamination were found to be comparable with those of traditional timber species used for general structural purposes such as beams, girders, flooring, etc.
• In the strength classification of wood devised at the Forest Products Research and Development Institute (FPRDI), laminated bamboo was comparable to commercial timber species under Class 2 (moderately high strength) such as kamagong (Diospyrus discolor), molave (Vitex parviflora), and narra (Pterocarpus indicus). The composite bamboo-wood lamination fell under Class 3 (medium strength) to which Philippine mahogany species such as white lauan (Shorea contorta), red lauan (Shorea polysperma), bagtikan (Parashorea malaanonan), and tanguile (Shorea polysperma) belong.
Chemical removal of cutin from bamboo twigs and branches
Cutin is the waxy substance found on the substance found on thesurface of bamboo. It inhibits the adhesion of finishing materials. Palisoc (FPRDI) conducted a study on the chemical removal of cutin from twigs and branches of kauayan tinik (Bambusa blumeana) by boiling in disodium octaborate tetra hydrate (DOT) and slake lime at 5, 10, and 15% concentrations for 30 and 60 minutes. Treated samples were applied with nitrocellulose (NC) lacquer and painted to evaluate their finishing adhesion performance and hot-and-cold-check resistance following ASTMD1211-60 method.
Findings
• Kauayan-tinik twigs and branches treated with 5% DOT and 5% slake lime at 30 minutes boiling exhibited high finishing adhesion when NC lacquer was applied with one coat of sanding sealer.
• The hot-and-cold check test showed that NC lacquer and paint rated high in the three indices of finishing serviceability, appearance, integrity, and protection.
• Using the 5% DOT and boiling for 30 minutes, the chemical removal of cutin was P 0.70 less per piece of 60 cm long bamboo twigs and branches than manual scraping.
Growth performance of bontong (Dendroclamus sp.) wildlings.
Bontong is an erect clump-forming bamboo, which usually attains a height of 20m with culm diameter of 15 cm. It is generally used for construction. Culms are split for flooring and walling of low-cost houses. Decipulo et al. (DENR-ERDS Region X) determined the possibility of raising bamboo through wildlings and assessed its performance when applied with fertilizer. Guano and inorganic (14-14-14) were the fertilizers used in this study.
Findings
• Bontong can be successfully regenerated through seedlings/wildlings.
• The application of organic and inorganic fertilizer increased shoot/culm production, as well as height and diameter of bontong, although there was no significant difference among the treatments used.
• The ability of bamboo to produce more and bigger culm is generally influenced by moisture and not necessarily with fertilizer, although more shoots were produced by the fertilized clumps than the unfertilized ones.
Rejuvenating old kauayan tinik clumps.
To meet the increasing demand for bamboo, new plantations should be established and the productivity of existing clumps should be increased. Rejuvenating old clumps through the application of suitable cultural treatments such as sanitation cutting, cleaning, or fertilizer application offers a quick and cheap means of increasing the supply of bamboo. Rosario and Samsam (MMSU) conducted a study to: 1) determine the effects of cleaning or sanitation cutting on the shoot and culm production of old kauayan tinik clumps; 2) evaluate the response of old kauayan tinik clumps to complete fertilizer application; and 3) establish the cost-benefit derived from cleaning and fertilizer application on old kauayan tinik clumps.
Findings
• Cleaning of clumps enhanced the growth and development of new shoots and culms resulting to better quality of harvested culms. The harvesting cost was greatly reduced in cleaned clumps. Estimate of income obtained from the harvested culms was higher in the cleaned clumps.
• Complete fertilizer application had significant influence on the number, diameter, and height of shoots; number and diameter of culms; diameter and length of harvested culms; and potential income from the harvested culms.
• Applying 2.0 kg 14-14-14/clump per year to old kauayan tinik clumps can increase shoot and culm production. It can also enhance culm height and diameter growth and development, resulting to better quality of culms produced and ultimately more income per clump can be obtained.
Floresca and Sayo (ISU) developed a technology for the propagation of giant bamboo by using intermittent mist clonal propagator.
Findings
• The mist provides a cooling effect and the cyclic (intermittent) misting provides a controlled environment of low temperature and high humidity; which favors root and shoot development of cuttings.
• Survival rate for one-node culm cuttings reached up to 80% compared to only 20% for branch cuttings.
• Under a glass house (or shed), propagating beds (1 mx 8 m, uncovered) filled with pure sand medium were used. One-node culm cuttings of D. asper were prepared and dipped into root hormone solution.
• Each propagating bed was equally divided to accommodate the cuttings. Automatice misting cycle was set at 10 seconds on and 5 minutes off duration.
• After 60 days, the seedlings were placed in polyethelyne pots filled with ordinary soil and then hardened in the nursery from 0.5 to 1 month.
• Propagation of 300 pieces one-node culm cuttings for 2 - 2.5 months will incur Php6,100 and Php9,000 for inputs and labor, respectively. Sales of 250 pieces of giant bamboo seedlings (assuming 80% survival rate) will have a gross income of P25,000.
Source: PCARRD, 2003. Highlights 2002, Los Baños, Laguna, 214p
Zafaralla and Malab (MMSU) developed a machine called "kawayan tile maker" (KTM) for processing bamboo butts into solid flat bamboo tiles suitable for flooring, parquet, panels, furniture, and handicraft.
The machine has five major operations with only one source of power: crosscutting, knot removing, width sizing, thickness sizing, and tile length cutting. The machine can produce tiles of 20-30 cm wide x 10 mm wide x 100 mm long in 25 seconds with a precision of 86-92%. The conversion output per butt is 69%. Only one operator is needed to operate the machine.
The eventual commercialization of the machine can benefit small-scale bamboo farmers since the cost of fabricating the machine is only US$538.46 or approximately Php28,000.
The machine is designed for village operations and is for pilot testing in areas with sufficient bamboo standes. Alongside is the promotion of bamboo tiles as construction and architectural materials as well as material for the furniture and handicraft industries.
Source: PCARRD, 2003. Highlights 2002, Los Baños, Laguna, 214p.
Glue-laminated bamboo and bamboo-wood combination
Bamboo has been globally recognized as an ecologically friendly substitute to the commonly used timber, Its strength, lightness combined with extraordinary hardness, range in size abundance, easy propagation and short gestation period make it suitable for various construction purposes. Alipon et. al (FPRDI) developed glue-laminated bamboo-wood combination for structural uses.
Two bamboo species, kauayan tinik (Bambusa blumeana) and botong (Dendrocalamus latiflorus) and one timber species, yemane (Gmelina arborea), were used in the study. The samples were laminated by using urea formaldehyde (UF) + ammonium chloride (NH4Cl) as Glue I and UF + isocyanite as Glue II. The effects of species, glue type, and type of laminates (either bamboo-bamboo or bamboo-wood) were evaluated based on dry and wet shear tests.
Findings
• Strength properties in bending and compression parallel to the grain and shear along glue line of laminated bamboo and composite bamboo-wood lamination were found to be comparable with those of traditional timber species used for general structural purposes such as beams, girders, flooring, etc.
• In the strength classification of wood devised at the Forest Products Research and Development Institute (FPRDI), laminated bamboo was comparable to commercial timber species under Class 2 (moderately high strength) such as kamagong (Diospyrus discolor), molave (Vitex parviflora), and narra (Pterocarpus indicus). The composite bamboo-wood lamination fell under Class 3 (medium strength) to which Philippine mahogany species such as white lauan (Shorea contorta), red lauan (Shorea polysperma), bagtikan (Parashorea malaanonan), and tanguile (Shorea polysperma) belong.
Chemical removal of cutin from bamboo twigs and branches
Cutin is the waxy substance found on the substance found on thesurface of bamboo. It inhibits the adhesion of finishing materials. Palisoc (FPRDI) conducted a study on the chemical removal of cutin from twigs and branches of kauayan tinik (Bambusa blumeana) by boiling in disodium octaborate tetra hydrate (DOT) and slake lime at 5, 10, and 15% concentrations for 30 and 60 minutes. Treated samples were applied with nitrocellulose (NC) lacquer and painted to evaluate their finishing adhesion performance and hot-and-cold-check resistance following ASTMD1211-60 method.
Findings
• Kauayan-tinik twigs and branches treated with 5% DOT and 5% slake lime at 30 minutes boiling exhibited high finishing adhesion when NC lacquer was applied with one coat of sanding sealer.
• The hot-and-cold check test showed that NC lacquer and paint rated high in the three indices of finishing serviceability, appearance, integrity, and protection.
• Using the 5% DOT and boiling for 30 minutes, the chemical removal of cutin was P 0.70 less per piece of 60 cm long bamboo twigs and branches than manual scraping.
Growth performance of bontong (Dendroclamus sp.) wildlings.
Bontong is an erect clump-forming bamboo, which usually attains a height of 20m with culm diameter of 15 cm. It is generally used for construction. Culms are split for flooring and walling of low-cost houses. Decipulo et al. (DENR-ERDS Region X) determined the possibility of raising bamboo through wildlings and assessed its performance when applied with fertilizer. Guano and inorganic (14-14-14) were the fertilizers used in this study.
Findings
• Bontong can be successfully regenerated through seedlings/wildlings.
• The application of organic and inorganic fertilizer increased shoot/culm production, as well as height and diameter of bontong, although there was no significant difference among the treatments used.
• The ability of bamboo to produce more and bigger culm is generally influenced by moisture and not necessarily with fertilizer, although more shoots were produced by the fertilized clumps than the unfertilized ones.
Rejuvenating old kauayan tinik clumps.
To meet the increasing demand for bamboo, new plantations should be established and the productivity of existing clumps should be increased. Rejuvenating old clumps through the application of suitable cultural treatments such as sanitation cutting, cleaning, or fertilizer application offers a quick and cheap means of increasing the supply of bamboo. Rosario and Samsam (MMSU) conducted a study to: 1) determine the effects of cleaning or sanitation cutting on the shoot and culm production of old kauayan tinik clumps; 2) evaluate the response of old kauayan tinik clumps to complete fertilizer application; and 3) establish the cost-benefit derived from cleaning and fertilizer application on old kauayan tinik clumps.
Findings
• Cleaning of clumps enhanced the growth and development of new shoots and culms resulting to better quality of harvested culms. The harvesting cost was greatly reduced in cleaned clumps. Estimate of income obtained from the harvested culms was higher in the cleaned clumps.
• Complete fertilizer application had significant influence on the number, diameter, and height of shoots; number and diameter of culms; diameter and length of harvested culms; and potential income from the harvested culms.
• Applying 2.0 kg 14-14-14/clump per year to old kauayan tinik clumps can increase shoot and culm production. It can also enhance culm height and diameter growth and development, resulting to better quality of culms produced and ultimately more income per clump can be obtained.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Bamboo Nursery Proposal
Ampersand Green Box
DRAFT COPY
AN APPLICATION FOR GRANT SUPPORT
A PROJECT PROPOSAL FOR
BAMBOO NURSERY
In Brgy.__________
T O :
Proponent :
Email ad: kidapawanbamboo@yahoo.com
Contact Person: RIMMON A. PAREN
Bamboo Advocate
Contact Number:
E-mail Address: rimmonparen@yahoo.com
I. GENERAL INFORMATION
a. Project Title
Bamboo Nursery
b. Proponent
Kidapawan City
c. Contact Person
d. Project Scope
Locale: ________and neighboring Municipalities in Cotabato Province and adjacent region
e. Amount Requested
Amount Requested : P 90,000.00
Bamboo Inc. 10,000.00
Total Project Cost P 100,000.00
II. PROJECT DESCRIPTION
A. BACKGROUND / RATIONALE
Mindanao, the southernmost major island of the Philippine archipelago, has been devastated by all the downside effects of economic exploitation, governmental mismanagement, corruption and conflict imaginable. Add in centuries-long conflicts pitting valley against valley, community against community, religion against religion and the result is chaotic.
In Cotabato Province, especially surrounding Mt. Apo, the forests are gone. The soil pours down the hillsides collapsing the banks of rivers, washing out village and field in its headlong rush to the sea. In the rural areas, about the only export activity left is banana plantations. Land reform, although long overdue, is creating dislocations in the transition from monocropping as well as the recently prevailing land tenure relationships.
On the banana plantations, few farmers saw an economic niche to be filled by bamboo. As the huge banana bunches mature, their heavy weight needs to be supported, propped up. As long as there had been wood, props came from the forests. With the wood gone or beyond economic access, plantations turned to bamboo. Yet, buying prices are controlled by the banana industry; planting of additional bamboo culms was not encouraging.
The wild bamboo groves were quickly threatened. The demand for strong, tough culms was phenomenal--millions every year. By the early 80s, industrialists could see that there would not be enough bamboo to meet plantation demand. Bamboo was needed in almost phenomenal quantities.
In 1987, propagators of bamboo consolidated themselves in Davao Del Norte, the MACO Cooperative Chapter, saw the critical step needed to open the way to large scale bamboo propagation. With that breakthrough, propagation quickly resulted in hundreds of thousands of propagules annually. The effort was increased and the community organization work to match and by 1989, the Davao Bamboo Development Cooperative [DBDC] was on its way. Jose Caasi and Rey Millan are now earning millions every month by their simple bamboo grass cultivation.
The advocacy champion Rimmon Paren was invited by DTI Region XI to attend a consultative meeting at DTI National Economic Research and Business Assistance Center at Davao City last July 21, 2008 about the bamboo industry and its future here in Mindanao.GM Edgardo Manda of Laguna Lake Development Authority alongside with the Rotary Club of the Philippines is initiating the campaign and is extending funds for those who will eagerly start the project.
DTI RODG Undersecretary Engr. Merly Cruz is very enthusiastic in how and when it will be commenced that makes the schedule on October 22-24, 2008 in Manila to hold a National Bamboo Forum that will aim to set a single unified direction for the Bamboo Industry. The core group was created in strategically planning the bamboo industry advocacy campaign. Last August 14, 2008 was the second round of meeting where issues and concerns were discussed plus hearing the reports of the members of the core group. It was concluded with the statement of the DTI Regional Caretaker Ms. Marizon Loreto to have a pacing on the discussion and should come up with the establishment of the Nursery in Region XI and in the Cotabato Province as well as the construction of an economic sized processing plant to materialize the modernization of bamboo concept productions like plyboo and bamboo flooring tiles.
DTI Provincial Director Teolulo Pasawa will see to it that the issues and concerns will come to the attention of the concerned forum. Technology Fair was then planned and yet to be scheduled the soonest time possible.
DTI Special Concerns Division Mr. Romy Castanaga, which acts doubly as bamboo coordinator is willing to be around to put it at hand the industry clustering and value adding program of the bamboo industry.
We have this model which we want to replicate here in Cotabato Province. We do have burning desire and in fact we already had planted bamboo culms for personal use. Now, the Bamboo Inc. has the mission to expand bamboo propagation and utilization as a rural community revitalization tool.
Bamboo will be planted on unutilized land areas, most especially adjacent to the flood prone areas, First and foremost, to address global warming and environmental protection, secondly, for sustainable livelihood and develop it for innovative products like plyboo, panels, flooring, roofing, MDF tiles, pencil, charcoal, incense sticks, paper, clothing, strand board, toothpick, chopsticks, matchsticks, medicines and other uses. There is a published book of 5,000 different uses of bamboo.
The Bamboo Advocates wants to develop and settle on Laak and Giant Bamboo variety, secondarily on other marketable bamboo varieties endemic in Philippines. With an annual demand from banana plantations of over 12 million props, the market opportunity justified full-out expansion of cultivated bamboo. Additional effort will come into propagation of Kayali for bamboo shoot production, and other variety for its special uses as well.
What can we learn from successful bamboo entrepreneurs are:
• First, large scale vegetative propagation of bamboo can be done without massive capital investment or technically specialized workers.
• Second, bamboo can be the focus of equally large-scale community revitalization efforts.
• Third, to succeed, any bamboo-based development scheme must be based in an appropriate and accessible end-user market.
• Fourth, to support bamboo development as an economic resource, infrastructure needs to be developed in parallel.
• Lastly, addressing the Green House Gases that cause global warming or climate change and maintain the symbiotic relationship of human and nature, simply called the principle of co-existence.
B. OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT
The Bamboo Inc. needs to lease/borrow an idle piece of land total to 2,500 square meters. This area will be the nursery site, and all activities pertaining to nursery propagation and development will take place. The area must be also suitable to be a nursery of young bamboo propagules and must have plenty of water. The bamboo planting materials will be marketed to Don Bosco Foundation for Sustainable Development, Inc., Metro Kidapawan Water District, Antipas Water District and PNO-EDC, LGUs with riverbank rehabilitation projects as an additional reforestation material and individuals who has passion for the environment and do believes that what had you given back to the nature will reward you a thousand fold.
Moreover, to plant with bamboos all the unutilized land areas for re-greening of the province and eventually, the development of a Livelihood and Economic Development Projects (LED Projects).
A. Long Term
In the long run, the proponents are encouraging the spirit of sustainability, the defining of real sustainable livelihood project since bamboo has a lifespan of 120 years according to study of Dr. Felipe De Leon, thus the supply is very renewable and it creates more good than harm. Livelihood projects as well as maintaining ecological balance for the project to be enhanced and developed, the proponents will attend national and international forum on bamboo and other related activities, and to share information with the group about: manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers, exporters and importers; new products; product pricing; quality; product reviews; market size of product; import and export statistics; comparison with non-bamboo products; and other vital information crucial and beneficial to the industry.
The long term objective also is to establish an effective and efficient supply chain of raw materials by providing adequate supply of planting material from the nursery. It is expected that the advocacy leadership will be encouraging among members that they will continually contribute to the existing knowledge about bamboo and provide useful information to business people, economists, and anyone involved in the research and development, marketing, trade or manufacturing of bamboo products and machineries to speed up the process.
B. Short-term
DEFORESTATION and increased CO2 emissions threaten the earth's biodiversity and the very air we breathe. Perhaps the environmental crisis' at hand was not greatly appreciated or misunderstood as the Global Warming means intense heat since we are experiencing rain showers, flooding and devastating typhoons. Recently, there were sightings of tornado at Visayan peninsula and hail storm at other parts of the region, a four hours continuous raining will submerge low-lying areas, crops and settlements were affected, we should be addressing then the food security, or the food and its security, secured and free from flooding and various environmental damages.
Recent NASA reports of a 60% loss of ozone over the arctic provide an explanation for increased severity in the world’s weather patterns; this has only begun to affect us whether directly or indirectly. The social, political and economic implications are difficult to imagine as our ozone layer continues to thin, forests disappear and desertization is occurring at an alarming rate. Moreover, to address this situation, this gigantean task begins with a spark of passion and action, we need to establish a nursery, a bamboo nursery for planting material.
C. AREA OF ACTIVITY
The Nursery will provide for the planting materials of Local Water Districts Forest Conservation Area, National Irrigation Administration, and PNOC-EDC forest protected areas surrounding Mt. Apo. Local Government Units of Kidapawan City, Magpet and Makilala. Barangays alongside the river banks, deserted areas due to depleted soil nutrients in Alamada, Alesoan, Antipas, Arakan, Banisilan, Carmen, Kabacan, Libungan, Magpet, Makilala, Matalam, Midsayap, Mlang, Pigcawayan, Pikit, Pres. Roxas, and Tulunan.
In the near future, a Bambusetum Project of the Bamboo Inc.will take place in a strategic location that would doubly served as Bamboo Species Reservation Area and a Tourist Spot. Bambusetum is a collection of various varieties of Bamboo Plants which is endemic, rare and on the extinction level.
There is 7,837(Cotabato Rice Industry 2007) hectares of potential land areas for bamboo monocropping reforestation and unutilized for other agro-industry ventures. The farmers and land owners will be encouraged to plant bamboo by conducting Green House Gases Awareness Seminars and Livelihood Development using Bamboo as the main source of raw materials. In the future, Bamboo Industry level raising and catering international market (INBAR 2008).
90 hectares (NSCB 2007) present supply of bamboo shoots can be processed for canned bamboo to supply local demands. World Health Organization is supporting such advocacy in the World Food Program since bamboo has Fiber, Calcium, Iron, Vit. C, Vit. B1, Protein, Carbohydrates, Phosphorus, Glucose, Potassium, Vit. A and 17 Amino Acids. It could be processed as canned products.
Bamboo industry will be the alternative activities of farmers in rice industry especially during the period of between planting to harvest season, as well as providing employment to out-of-school youth, Agricultural Engineers, Mechanical Engineers in fabricating bamboo processing machines, bamboo craftsmen, bamboo artists on novelty products, bamboo musicians and among others. Skills training will be handled by TESDA and Accredited Schools like USM, NCFCI, NPCAT, KTSI, RDACC and other support industries in Center for Excellence.
500 hectares of Bamboo Forest is needed to build an Economic Scale Processing Plant for bamboo panels, plyboo, bamboo ply boards as well as backyard industry stated above. This 500 hectares bamboo plantation will be the source for the rest of the organization’s income generating project on putting up in the future a Processing Plant for Income Generating Project of the province and locality. According to study, bamboo’s life span is 120 years and its biomass growth per year is 10% despite of intensive harvesting of matured poles, justifying the sustainability of this venture.
PLAN OF OPERATION
B. Organization and staffing
Ampersand Green Box is the significant ecology –working organization in North Cotabato Province with a large base of stakeholders particularly among farmers. The organization will be overseen by a component set of board of directors and the Executive Director – Mr. Rimmon A. Paren who is an environmentalist by heart, a boy farmer, an MBA Student and a bamboo fanatic.
Proposed project partners will be sharing their expertise in management and workforce. The project will be managed independently by a Project Director who will administer the operations of the purchasing/ sourcing department (source out nursery planting material, polyvinyl bags, nursery equipments, organic based pest and fungal control), processing/ propagation department (sorting, classification, bagging, watering, pruning, fertigation), and marketing department (promoting, selling, logistics).
The staff of the Bamboo Nursery will be hired competitively from the best professional in the province to manage the operations of the plant in the most competent manner. Government agencies will be tapped to serve as advisory group in the effective management of the project such as provincial offices of the Department of Trade and industry, Department of Agriculture-CEMIARC, PCCARD-Department of Science and Technology, Bureau of Plant Industries, USM-ATI, Department of Natural Resources, National Statistical Coordinating Board, Metro Kidapawan Chamber of Commerce and Industry Foundation Inc., International Network of Bamboo and Rattan, Bamboo Cooperatives and Bamboo Societies.
C. Project Activities
The major activities of the Bamboo Nursery to achieve its objectives are:
1. Information campaign and organize water districts, farmers, learning institution for skills training, upland farmers to elevate the awareness of the usefulness of the bamboo as an ecological balancer and defines true meaning of sustainable livelihood.
2. Establish, procure/lease/borrow a nursery site and facilities that includes
A. 2,500 square meters land area to be leased
B. Purchase nursery equipments and planting materials
C. Development of tissue cultured bamboo propagules
D. Construction of a greenhouse
E. Construction of various propagation methods facilities
F. distribution (trucking, delivery)
3. Establish formal linkages to LGU’s, DENR, GOCC”s, Ecologist Group and Private Sectors,
4. Establish workable linkages with DTI, DA, DOST-PCCARD, Bamboo Societies, UP-Mindanao and University of Southern Mindanao for R & D and other government agencies, NGOs and private consulting firm to effectively manage the operations.
D. Financial Plan
The estimated total project cost is One Hundred Thousand Pesos (Php 100,000.00), the break down to viz:
Bamboo Inc. counter part:
Land (lease contracts) Php 2,000.00
Initial working capital 8,000.00
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Subtotal Php 10,000
Requested fund:
Bamboo culms (500 poles) Php 25,000.00
Gardening Equipments and fixtures 29,505.00
Admin. And Labor Costs 27,250.00
Mobilization Funds 15,000.00
Other expenses 16,300.00
Liquidity Reserves 3,945.00
subtotal 96,055.00
Total project cost Php 100,000.00
Pricing and income targets
Selling price of the Bamboo (RPM) ready for planting materials will be based on the prevailing selling price of other durable trees. The initial price should be 100.00 per propagule. A one hectare land could be planted with 500 to 600 propagules thus spending 60,000.00 per hectare. A projection of 500 hectares or more to be planted by bamboo is expected for the future source of raw materials of the organization’s plan of establishing an Economic Size Bamboo Processing Plant.
Net income will set at fifteen (15%) percent after the cost, wherein the income will be plowed back for salaries of the management, caretakers, expansion and maintenance of the facilities. The cost will be maintained on its competitive level by benchmarking on existing cost of production.
E. Project Evaluation
The project will be evaluated using a results based management tool to measure the impact (as projected in five years), outcome (in 3 years) and output (annual evaluation on the attainment of objectives and target indicators).
The evaluation tool format is as follows:
Results-Output Results-Outcome Results-Impact Gaps, Issues, & Problems
Activities
Risk Mgt.
Quality
Quantity
Tasks & Milestones
Area Coverage
Personnel
Development
DRAFT COPY
AN APPLICATION FOR GRANT SUPPORT
A PROJECT PROPOSAL FOR
BAMBOO NURSERY
In Brgy.__________
T O :
Proponent :
Email ad: kidapawanbamboo@yahoo.com
Contact Person: RIMMON A. PAREN
Bamboo Advocate
Contact Number:
E-mail Address: rimmonparen@yahoo.com
I. GENERAL INFORMATION
a. Project Title
Bamboo Nursery
b. Proponent
Kidapawan City
c. Contact Person
d. Project Scope
Locale: ________and neighboring Municipalities in Cotabato Province and adjacent region
e. Amount Requested
Amount Requested : P 90,000.00
Bamboo Inc. 10,000.00
Total Project Cost P 100,000.00
II. PROJECT DESCRIPTION
A. BACKGROUND / RATIONALE
Mindanao, the southernmost major island of the Philippine archipelago, has been devastated by all the downside effects of economic exploitation, governmental mismanagement, corruption and conflict imaginable. Add in centuries-long conflicts pitting valley against valley, community against community, religion against religion and the result is chaotic.
In Cotabato Province, especially surrounding Mt. Apo, the forests are gone. The soil pours down the hillsides collapsing the banks of rivers, washing out village and field in its headlong rush to the sea. In the rural areas, about the only export activity left is banana plantations. Land reform, although long overdue, is creating dislocations in the transition from monocropping as well as the recently prevailing land tenure relationships.
On the banana plantations, few farmers saw an economic niche to be filled by bamboo. As the huge banana bunches mature, their heavy weight needs to be supported, propped up. As long as there had been wood, props came from the forests. With the wood gone or beyond economic access, plantations turned to bamboo. Yet, buying prices are controlled by the banana industry; planting of additional bamboo culms was not encouraging.
The wild bamboo groves were quickly threatened. The demand for strong, tough culms was phenomenal--millions every year. By the early 80s, industrialists could see that there would not be enough bamboo to meet plantation demand. Bamboo was needed in almost phenomenal quantities.
In 1987, propagators of bamboo consolidated themselves in Davao Del Norte, the MACO Cooperative Chapter, saw the critical step needed to open the way to large scale bamboo propagation. With that breakthrough, propagation quickly resulted in hundreds of thousands of propagules annually. The effort was increased and the community organization work to match and by 1989, the Davao Bamboo Development Cooperative [DBDC] was on its way. Jose Caasi and Rey Millan are now earning millions every month by their simple bamboo grass cultivation.
The advocacy champion Rimmon Paren was invited by DTI Region XI to attend a consultative meeting at DTI National Economic Research and Business Assistance Center at Davao City last July 21, 2008 about the bamboo industry and its future here in Mindanao.GM Edgardo Manda of Laguna Lake Development Authority alongside with the Rotary Club of the Philippines is initiating the campaign and is extending funds for those who will eagerly start the project.
DTI RODG Undersecretary Engr. Merly Cruz is very enthusiastic in how and when it will be commenced that makes the schedule on October 22-24, 2008 in Manila to hold a National Bamboo Forum that will aim to set a single unified direction for the Bamboo Industry. The core group was created in strategically planning the bamboo industry advocacy campaign. Last August 14, 2008 was the second round of meeting where issues and concerns were discussed plus hearing the reports of the members of the core group. It was concluded with the statement of the DTI Regional Caretaker Ms. Marizon Loreto to have a pacing on the discussion and should come up with the establishment of the Nursery in Region XI and in the Cotabato Province as well as the construction of an economic sized processing plant to materialize the modernization of bamboo concept productions like plyboo and bamboo flooring tiles.
DTI Provincial Director Teolulo Pasawa will see to it that the issues and concerns will come to the attention of the concerned forum. Technology Fair was then planned and yet to be scheduled the soonest time possible.
DTI Special Concerns Division Mr. Romy Castanaga, which acts doubly as bamboo coordinator is willing to be around to put it at hand the industry clustering and value adding program of the bamboo industry.
We have this model which we want to replicate here in Cotabato Province. We do have burning desire and in fact we already had planted bamboo culms for personal use. Now, the Bamboo Inc. has the mission to expand bamboo propagation and utilization as a rural community revitalization tool.
Bamboo will be planted on unutilized land areas, most especially adjacent to the flood prone areas, First and foremost, to address global warming and environmental protection, secondly, for sustainable livelihood and develop it for innovative products like plyboo, panels, flooring, roofing, MDF tiles, pencil, charcoal, incense sticks, paper, clothing, strand board, toothpick, chopsticks, matchsticks, medicines and other uses. There is a published book of 5,000 different uses of bamboo.
The Bamboo Advocates wants to develop and settle on Laak and Giant Bamboo variety, secondarily on other marketable bamboo varieties endemic in Philippines. With an annual demand from banana plantations of over 12 million props, the market opportunity justified full-out expansion of cultivated bamboo. Additional effort will come into propagation of Kayali for bamboo shoot production, and other variety for its special uses as well.
What can we learn from successful bamboo entrepreneurs are:
• First, large scale vegetative propagation of bamboo can be done without massive capital investment or technically specialized workers.
• Second, bamboo can be the focus of equally large-scale community revitalization efforts.
• Third, to succeed, any bamboo-based development scheme must be based in an appropriate and accessible end-user market.
• Fourth, to support bamboo development as an economic resource, infrastructure needs to be developed in parallel.
• Lastly, addressing the Green House Gases that cause global warming or climate change and maintain the symbiotic relationship of human and nature, simply called the principle of co-existence.
B. OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT
The Bamboo Inc. needs to lease/borrow an idle piece of land total to 2,500 square meters. This area will be the nursery site, and all activities pertaining to nursery propagation and development will take place. The area must be also suitable to be a nursery of young bamboo propagules and must have plenty of water. The bamboo planting materials will be marketed to Don Bosco Foundation for Sustainable Development, Inc., Metro Kidapawan Water District, Antipas Water District and PNO-EDC, LGUs with riverbank rehabilitation projects as an additional reforestation material and individuals who has passion for the environment and do believes that what had you given back to the nature will reward you a thousand fold.
Moreover, to plant with bamboos all the unutilized land areas for re-greening of the province and eventually, the development of a Livelihood and Economic Development Projects (LED Projects).
A. Long Term
In the long run, the proponents are encouraging the spirit of sustainability, the defining of real sustainable livelihood project since bamboo has a lifespan of 120 years according to study of Dr. Felipe De Leon, thus the supply is very renewable and it creates more good than harm. Livelihood projects as well as maintaining ecological balance for the project to be enhanced and developed, the proponents will attend national and international forum on bamboo and other related activities, and to share information with the group about: manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers, exporters and importers; new products; product pricing; quality; product reviews; market size of product; import and export statistics; comparison with non-bamboo products; and other vital information crucial and beneficial to the industry.
The long term objective also is to establish an effective and efficient supply chain of raw materials by providing adequate supply of planting material from the nursery. It is expected that the advocacy leadership will be encouraging among members that they will continually contribute to the existing knowledge about bamboo and provide useful information to business people, economists, and anyone involved in the research and development, marketing, trade or manufacturing of bamboo products and machineries to speed up the process.
B. Short-term
DEFORESTATION and increased CO2 emissions threaten the earth's biodiversity and the very air we breathe. Perhaps the environmental crisis' at hand was not greatly appreciated or misunderstood as the Global Warming means intense heat since we are experiencing rain showers, flooding and devastating typhoons. Recently, there were sightings of tornado at Visayan peninsula and hail storm at other parts of the region, a four hours continuous raining will submerge low-lying areas, crops and settlements were affected, we should be addressing then the food security, or the food and its security, secured and free from flooding and various environmental damages.
Recent NASA reports of a 60% loss of ozone over the arctic provide an explanation for increased severity in the world’s weather patterns; this has only begun to affect us whether directly or indirectly. The social, political and economic implications are difficult to imagine as our ozone layer continues to thin, forests disappear and desertization is occurring at an alarming rate. Moreover, to address this situation, this gigantean task begins with a spark of passion and action, we need to establish a nursery, a bamboo nursery for planting material.
C. AREA OF ACTIVITY
The Nursery will provide for the planting materials of Local Water Districts Forest Conservation Area, National Irrigation Administration, and PNOC-EDC forest protected areas surrounding Mt. Apo. Local Government Units of Kidapawan City, Magpet and Makilala. Barangays alongside the river banks, deserted areas due to depleted soil nutrients in Alamada, Alesoan, Antipas, Arakan, Banisilan, Carmen, Kabacan, Libungan, Magpet, Makilala, Matalam, Midsayap, Mlang, Pigcawayan, Pikit, Pres. Roxas, and Tulunan.
In the near future, a Bambusetum Project of the Bamboo Inc.will take place in a strategic location that would doubly served as Bamboo Species Reservation Area and a Tourist Spot. Bambusetum is a collection of various varieties of Bamboo Plants which is endemic, rare and on the extinction level.
There is 7,837(Cotabato Rice Industry 2007) hectares of potential land areas for bamboo monocropping reforestation and unutilized for other agro-industry ventures. The farmers and land owners will be encouraged to plant bamboo by conducting Green House Gases Awareness Seminars and Livelihood Development using Bamboo as the main source of raw materials. In the future, Bamboo Industry level raising and catering international market (INBAR 2008).
90 hectares (NSCB 2007) present supply of bamboo shoots can be processed for canned bamboo to supply local demands. World Health Organization is supporting such advocacy in the World Food Program since bamboo has Fiber, Calcium, Iron, Vit. C, Vit. B1, Protein, Carbohydrates, Phosphorus, Glucose, Potassium, Vit. A and 17 Amino Acids. It could be processed as canned products.
Bamboo industry will be the alternative activities of farmers in rice industry especially during the period of between planting to harvest season, as well as providing employment to out-of-school youth, Agricultural Engineers, Mechanical Engineers in fabricating bamboo processing machines, bamboo craftsmen, bamboo artists on novelty products, bamboo musicians and among others. Skills training will be handled by TESDA and Accredited Schools like USM, NCFCI, NPCAT, KTSI, RDACC and other support industries in Center for Excellence.
500 hectares of Bamboo Forest is needed to build an Economic Scale Processing Plant for bamboo panels, plyboo, bamboo ply boards as well as backyard industry stated above. This 500 hectares bamboo plantation will be the source for the rest of the organization’s income generating project on putting up in the future a Processing Plant for Income Generating Project of the province and locality. According to study, bamboo’s life span is 120 years and its biomass growth per year is 10% despite of intensive harvesting of matured poles, justifying the sustainability of this venture.
PLAN OF OPERATION
B. Organization and staffing
Ampersand Green Box is the significant ecology –working organization in North Cotabato Province with a large base of stakeholders particularly among farmers. The organization will be overseen by a component set of board of directors and the Executive Director – Mr. Rimmon A. Paren who is an environmentalist by heart, a boy farmer, an MBA Student and a bamboo fanatic.
Proposed project partners will be sharing their expertise in management and workforce. The project will be managed independently by a Project Director who will administer the operations of the purchasing/ sourcing department (source out nursery planting material, polyvinyl bags, nursery equipments, organic based pest and fungal control), processing/ propagation department (sorting, classification, bagging, watering, pruning, fertigation), and marketing department (promoting, selling, logistics).
The staff of the Bamboo Nursery will be hired competitively from the best professional in the province to manage the operations of the plant in the most competent manner. Government agencies will be tapped to serve as advisory group in the effective management of the project such as provincial offices of the Department of Trade and industry, Department of Agriculture-CEMIARC, PCCARD-Department of Science and Technology, Bureau of Plant Industries, USM-ATI, Department of Natural Resources, National Statistical Coordinating Board, Metro Kidapawan Chamber of Commerce and Industry Foundation Inc., International Network of Bamboo and Rattan, Bamboo Cooperatives and Bamboo Societies.
C. Project Activities
The major activities of the Bamboo Nursery to achieve its objectives are:
1. Information campaign and organize water districts, farmers, learning institution for skills training, upland farmers to elevate the awareness of the usefulness of the bamboo as an ecological balancer and defines true meaning of sustainable livelihood.
2. Establish, procure/lease/borrow a nursery site and facilities that includes
A. 2,500 square meters land area to be leased
B. Purchase nursery equipments and planting materials
C. Development of tissue cultured bamboo propagules
D. Construction of a greenhouse
E. Construction of various propagation methods facilities
F. distribution (trucking, delivery)
3. Establish formal linkages to LGU’s, DENR, GOCC”s, Ecologist Group and Private Sectors,
4. Establish workable linkages with DTI, DA, DOST-PCCARD, Bamboo Societies, UP-Mindanao and University of Southern Mindanao for R & D and other government agencies, NGOs and private consulting firm to effectively manage the operations.
D. Financial Plan
The estimated total project cost is One Hundred Thousand Pesos (Php 100,000.00), the break down to viz:
Bamboo Inc. counter part:
Land (lease contracts) Php 2,000.00
Initial working capital 8,000.00
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Subtotal Php 10,000
Requested fund:
Bamboo culms (500 poles) Php 25,000.00
Gardening Equipments and fixtures 29,505.00
Admin. And Labor Costs 27,250.00
Mobilization Funds 15,000.00
Other expenses 16,300.00
Liquidity Reserves 3,945.00
subtotal 96,055.00
Total project cost Php 100,000.00
Pricing and income targets
Selling price of the Bamboo (RPM) ready for planting materials will be based on the prevailing selling price of other durable trees. The initial price should be 100.00 per propagule. A one hectare land could be planted with 500 to 600 propagules thus spending 60,000.00 per hectare. A projection of 500 hectares or more to be planted by bamboo is expected for the future source of raw materials of the organization’s plan of establishing an Economic Size Bamboo Processing Plant.
Net income will set at fifteen (15%) percent after the cost, wherein the income will be plowed back for salaries of the management, caretakers, expansion and maintenance of the facilities. The cost will be maintained on its competitive level by benchmarking on existing cost of production.
E. Project Evaluation
The project will be evaluated using a results based management tool to measure the impact (as projected in five years), outcome (in 3 years) and output (annual evaluation on the attainment of objectives and target indicators).
The evaluation tool format is as follows:
Results-Output Results-Outcome Results-Impact Gaps, Issues, & Problems
Activities
Risk Mgt.
Quality
Quantity
Tasks & Milestones
Area Coverage
Personnel
Development
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
How to Make Bamboo Charcoal Briquette
To fully utilize the bamboo, another technology was generated that could help the stand owners produce more income. Wastes from bamboo processing may be manufactured into charcoal briquettes. This could help reduce pressure on wood resource. It could also help mitigate carbon dioxide emission into the atmosphere.
The steps in making kawayan charcoal briquettes are:
1. Collecting and Preparing the Raw Materials
o Collect dead poles and branches from bamboo clumps. Oftentimes, these materials are left to rot or burned during clearing and cleaning operation of bamboo stands.
o Collect waste materials for use in making charcoal briquette. Bamboo processing leaves excessive waste materials such as trimmings and shavings. Generally, about 20-40% is thrown into waste when processing bamboo into furniture and engineered products.
o Collect chichacorn effluent. Collect and store in plastic containers the chichacorn processing effluent from the first and third washing of the boiled corn kernels. The first washing effluent contains 4. 48% TSS mostly lime while the third washing contains 3.08% TSS mostly starch.
2. Carbonizing is the process of converting the raw bamboo into charcoal. It can be done through drum method. Cool-off the charred materials in closed metal containers. An alternative to the drum is the pit method.
o Dig a small pit approximately 1m2 and 0.5 m deep and place the raw bamboo materials inside.
o Start lighting a fire into the wastes bamboo materials and then put rice hull little by little into it until the fire is gone and the wastes materials are completely charred and carbonized.
o Cool-off charred materials in metal containers.
3. Shredding/Pulverizing
o Shred or pulverize the charcoal to attain uniform sized particles. This will facilitate the even mixing of the binders and the charcoal fine particles.
4. Preparing the Binder – The use of chichacorn effluent as binders is recommended. It is cheap because it is considered waste material.
o Mix 2.5 L of effluent to one kg of charcoal. Where effluent is not available, use corn starch as a binder.
o Use 6% mixture This means that 1 kg of bamboo charcoal needs 60 g of gelatinized corn starch. The weight of water of the raw material.
5. Briquetting
o Mix thoroughly the binder and the charcoal.
o Mold into briquettes immediately.
6. Drying the Briquettes
o Dry the briquettes under the sun for 1-2 days.
o Continue drying under the shade until it reaches equilibrium moisture content.
7. Packaging
o Pack the briquettes according to desired size and weight. For the 3.78 cm diameter x 4.88 cm length briquettes, approximately 40 pieces are equivalent to 1 kg. Wrap the briquettes with used cement bags, which could be used later to fire up the briquettes.
source: PCARRD-DOST, ILARRDEC, MMSU, photo from tradeindia.com
Monday, September 12, 2011
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Proposal for Hub Establishment
PROPOSAL FOR HUB ESTABLISHMENT FOR SOUTH COTABATO PROVINCE
ABSTRACT
Mindanao, the southernmost major island of the Philippine archipelago, had been endowed with vast and fertile lands, prolific lakes, major rivers were traversing the valleys to irrigate crops and sustaining lives along the riverbanks; Catch basins of Ligwasan Marsh on the central Mindanao Area and Agusan Marsh on the northern part plays a key role in sustaining livelihood and culture of the people surrounding it. But sad to say, forests are gone, slash and burn farming practice, logging and conversion to large scale monocropping and agro industrial crops left those verdant green jungles fallowed. Climate change made a significant effect to other high value crops; fruit trees bear fruit out of season and other fruit trees don’t made it at all. Lake Lanao falls to its unexpected glum of water level thus looming power shortage to entire Mindanao archipelago.
In South Cotabato, especially surrounding major rivers and protected areas, the forests are gone. The soil pours down the hillsides collapsing the banks of rivers, washing out villages, rice and corn fields in its headlong rush to the sea, immensely threatening the food supply. With its near 100 meters above sea level elevation, low lying areas like Sultan Kudarat is the dumping area of the torrential water flow submerging the towns of Lambayong, part of Bagumbayan and other neighboring municipalities. In the outskirts of the province, only export activities left are monocropping plantations. It escalates the level of displacement of habitation and increase the population of urban poor looking for a better future in the urban areas. Back in the rural areas, agriculture has long overdue conflicts on land ownership as well as the recently prevailing land tenure relationships.
BACKGROUD/STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Pampanga, Benguet, Baguio and Cordillera had already institutionalized the Bamboo Industry Development Council. We have this model which we want to replicate here in South Cotabato Province, thus the issuance of EO # 5 creating Bamboo Industry Development Council. We do have these problems in flooding, erratic climate, scarcity of livelihood and we do believe that bamboo plant could do its part in part and partial of the predicament. Now, the Bamboo Advocates has the mission to expand bamboo propagation along riverbanks and riparian zones as the project was spearheaded by the Allah Valley Landscape Development Authority (AVLADA).
Bamboo will be planted on unutilized land areas, most especially adjacent to the flood prone areas, First and foremost, to address global warming and environmental protection, secondly, for sustainable livelihood and develop it for innovative products like Bamboo Chairs, desks and tables for Department of Education requirements, plyboo(ply board made of bamboo), panels, flooring tiles, tegula roofing, MDF(medium density fiberboards) tiles, pencil, charcoal, incense sticks, paper, bamboo fiber for clothing, strand board, toothpick, chopsticks, matchsticks, medicines and other uses. There is a published book of 5,000 different uses of bamboo.
The South Cotabato Province Bamboo Industry Development Council (SCPBIDC) wants to develop and plant more on variety specific for Engineered Bamboo Production like Kawayang Tinik, Botong and Giant Bamboo variety, secondarily on other marketable bamboo varieties endemic in Philippines. With an annual demand from banana plantations of over 12 million poles for propping, the market opportunity justified full-out expansion of cultivated bamboo. Additional effort will come into propagation of Kayali for bamboo shoot production, and other variety for its special uses as well.
B. OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT
The project needs to establish a mini hub for processing of engineered bamboo for Department of Education’s requirements on Bamboo desks, tables and chairs. Other products produced will be sold to local market and institutional buyers like DPWH, Provincial Engineering Office and other NGAs that will use bamboo as wood substitute. Due to proximity of raw materials, Sto. Niño LGU will host the mini hub and the nodes are to be established at Lake Sebu, T’Boli, Norala, Surallah and Banga municipalities.This is the end market of the bamboos being planted by the land owners along riverbanks or riparian zone. Other LGUs with riverbank rehabilitation projects as an additional reforestation material and individuals who has passion for the environment will be benefitted as they earn extra income by selling bamboo poles to a node(pre-processed bamboo slats) centers.
Moreover, to plant with bamboos all the unutilized land areas for re-greening of the province and eventually, the development of a Livelihood and Economic Development Projects (LED Projects).
A. Long Term
In the long run, the proponents are encouraging the spirit of sustainability, the defining of real sustainable livelihood project, continuous plantation of bamboo propagules will be campaigned especially to the CBFM, ISF, IFMA, Riparian Zones, buffer zones and brown lands not suitable for agricultural crops and vegetations. For engineered bamboo production, the proponents as well as the supposed skilled workers will attend formalized training to be conducted by DTI-Cottage Industry Technology Center. will attend national and international forum on bamboo and other related activities, and to share information about research and developments: manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers, new products; product pricing; quality; product reviews; market size of product; and other vital information crucial and beneficial to the individuals involved, for the skills required, bamboo development research on quality and creation of a renewable and sustainable bamboo industry in the process.
The long term objective also is to establish an effective and efficient supply chain of raw materials to the processing plant or the Bamboo Hub at Sto. Niño, South Cotabato up to the final market which is the Department of Education for their requirements in bamboo desks and tables.
B. Short-term
Within the last quarter of 2011, realization on the establishment of a mini hub within the vicinity of Sto. Niño, South Cotabato should be achieved. This is the proximity measure of the manufacturing process since raw materials are relatively abundant around the processing area. Lake Sebu ranked the highest in number of clumps with the variety appropriate as raw materials. Surrounding towns like T’Boli, Norala, Surallah, Banga and Koronadal City will be the other areas from which bamboo poles can be sourced out as raw materials. Form these areas, nodes will be established for the pre-processed bamboo slats requirements of the Hub in Sto. Niño.
Benefits of the Project
People needs those livelihood projects, a sustainable, renewable and undamaging to environment; this could be answered by bamboo as environmental protection and as source of the modern and sustainable livelihood project.
Large scale vegetative propagation of bamboo can be done without massive capital investment or technically specialized workers. Farmers could start bamboo plantation without much cash or capital outlay and planting bamboo is inherent to every farmers in the locality. Bamboo can be the focus of equally large-scale community revitalization efforts.
As this bamboo-based development scheme which is based in an appropriate and accessible end-user market, the DepEd and DPWH as institutional market, this is a doable enterprise for the LGU Sto. Niño. Home demand should be addressed, first and foremost. Low cost housing with affordable building materials will eventually be the trend. Household daily uses that needs bamboo like charcoal for fuel, sanitized sticks for grilled meats, toothpicks, pencil and paper for schoolchildren. Tissue paper for toiletries and offices uses papers for their daily activities.
Community within the array of the processing Hub and bamboo forests will acquire immediate result of the plan. Rice, corn and other cash crop farmers will also reap the protective result being emanated by the bamboo cultivation.
Lastly, addressing the Green House Gases that cause global warming or climate change while maintaining the symbiotic relationship of human and nature, simply called the principle of co-existence.
PROJECT PROPONENT:
South Cotabato Province Bamboo Industry Development Council
Project Components:
• Area Development
• Facilities, Livelihood, etc.,
• Support Industries, Factories and Companies
• Manpower and Skills Development
• Center for Excellence institution for skills training e.g. engineering, human resource management, specialization studies, etc.
• Government Policies
• Internal and external markets
• Other sectors supporting bamboo industry
South Cotabato’s 370,590 hectares wherein 22.7% or 84,124 hectares declared as forestland/timberland.
FUNDING COMPONENT AND FACILITIES:
LGU Sto. Nino had allocated a budget of Php 700,000.00 for the initial capital of the mini hub. This amount will be used for the building structure, power installation, work benches and other primary equipments. RuMEPP will counterpart the initial tools needed for the primary processing and for training of the machinery and electrical tools operations. The capital outlay of LGU Sto. Nino will be the counterpart with provincial LGU. A Bamboo Hub to operate needs nearly Php 10,000,000.00 (DTI-CITC ,Manual on Engineered Bamboo, the Industry, Technology and other information). Minimum requirements for the Hub establishment are:
• 10 laborers
• 50 hectares of bamboo plantation
• 10 M capitalization.
• 12 Nodes (bamboo slat producers)
NODES machineries/equipments:
• Bamboo Pole Cutter - Php 45,000.00
• Twin Rip Saw 75,000.00
• 4s Planer/Sizer and Shaver - 240,000.00
• Treatment Vat or Pond 30,000.00
= = = = = = = = =
Php 390,000.00
: If, the Hub to operate in full shift to meet the supply and demand flow, it needs at least 12 Nodes to stream the pre-processed raw materials – 4s Bamboo Slats. Thus;
Php 390,000.00/node x 12 Nodes = Php 4,680,000.00
FINAL PROCESSING:
Machineries:
-ROUGH MILLING PROCESS
• Kiln Dryer Php 200,000.00
• Moisture Meter Device(Humidity Tester MD812) 1,099.56(ebay)
• Thickness Planer 250,000.00
• Surface Planer and Jointer 140,000.00
• Multi Head Spindle Moulder 2,100,000.00
• Portable belt sander 15,000.00
• Hot Press Machine 1,500,000.00
• High Frequency Laminating Press Machine 1,700,000.00
• Bar clamps and C Clamps(Babco-Bar-and-C-Clamps-18-Pc-Set) 2,364,57(ebay)
• Manual Rollers with Funnel 1,000.00
=============
Php 5,909,464.13
- FINISHING/ MILLING PROCESS
• Surface Planer and Jointer 140,000.00
• Multi head Spindle Moulder 2,100,000.00
• Airless Spray Gun with spray booth 200,000.00
==============
Php 2,440,000.00
NODE ATTACHED ON HUB Php 390,000.00
MILLWRIGHTING EQUIPMENT - 300,000.00
=============
SUB TOTAL Php 8, 649,464.13
MAINTENANCE COST (10%) 864,946.13
=============
TOTAL CAPITAL Php 9,904,410.53
Note: equipment prices are based on DTI - CITC costing, others were sourced out from ebay.
- CAPITAL ON RAW MATERIALS
(50 School Desks Production)
• 6,000 bamboo slats @ 2.00/slat Php 12,000.00
• Cutting and hauling (15%) 900.00
• Gluing, assembling and finishing materials(20%) 2,400.00
• Preservatives(insecticides/sap stain prevention) 5,000.00
• Labor Cost (40%) 4,800.00
===========
Php 25,100.00
• ROI – Php 717.00/armchair x 50 pcs = Php 35,850.00
• Profit Margin 10,750.00(43%)
Salient Features :( on a medium sized public school with 40 classrooms)
• 30,000 poles of choice cut bamboo will be used.
• A regular class of 50 students/room x 40 classrooms = 2,000 2,000 armchairs x 717.00 = Cost = Php 1,434,000.00
• Capital for 2,000 armchairs = Php 1,004,000.00
• 3.12 hectares of rainforest was saved.
• Same number of poles will be used to produce another 2,000 armchairs from same source area of bamboo poles.
SUPPORT INDUSTRIES:
The Cottage Industry Technology Center (CITC) will provide technical knowledge on machine operations and other related trainings for the bamboo industry. DTI South Cotabato thru the special project of RuMEPP will maintain the market linkage, source out investors for the industry and provision of business development services as well as relevant trainings needed to the industry. The Provincial Environment and Management Office (PEMO) with Allah Valley Landscape Development Authority (AVLADA) will carry on with its advocacy program on sustainability of bamboo raw materials through its reforestation and forestation projects. The Department of Agriculture will provide bamboo propagules and other relevant trainings on the nursery management,permaculture and silvicultural management of bamboo plantation. DENR through ERDB, PCCARD and FNRS will augment the needs in research and development. DepEd will be the institutional buyer of the bamboo armchairs, desks and tables. DOST will provide necessary technology and technical assistance. For the sustainability of manpower resources, TESDA will formulate and provide skills trainings related to bamboo production and machine operation thru the technology transfer to be conducted by CITC. The Provincial Government of South Cotabato had already issued an Executive Order and a one-stop-shop on issuance of transport permit of bamboo in support of the initiatives in bamboo industry development and will provide financial assistance and other fundamental support to sustain the industry. Non-government Organization like South Cotabato Bamboo Crafters Association will be the additional support for the production of traditional bamboo products, as bi-products and the Bamboo Growers Association, as a private sector will support supplying propagules in the grass root level of intervention with the bamboo industry development. Thus completing the diamond model for the industry clustering:
MANPOWER AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT:
With the forging of the Memorandum of Agreement between DTI South Cotabato through its RuMEPP Program(Rural Micro Enterprise Promotions Programme) and the Cottage Industry Technology Center (CITC)as it implements programs and projects aimed to provide production enhancing technologies and processes, tooling and equipment, product sample making/materials manipulation, and other related business development services (BDS) to community based enterprises (CBEs), marginalized groups, cooperatives, associations, and other self-help groups with the end-view of transforming them into sustainable and competitive MSMEs. It also helps develop other government and non-government entities as local non-financial BDS providers.
Moreover, the CITC provides skills training, technical consultancy, and common facility services to micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) as well as to the country’s giftwares and holiday decors, fine jewelry, leather footwear, and home furnishing industries.
GOVERNMENT POLICIES:
Executive Order 879 which was issued last May 26, 2010 creates the Philippine Bamboo Industry Development Council. Regional Development Council had considered bamboo as one of the cluster project with vivid future. Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) have identified its development as one of its flagship projects and have initiated the implementation of the engineered bamboo project. South Cotabato Provincial Government had made same effort and an all out support for the issuance of the Executive Order # 5 creating South Cotabato Province Bamboo Industry Development Council (SCPBIDC) and its Implementing Rules and Regulations. The institutionalization of a weeklong Kawayan Festival and the creation of Technical Working Group to formulate policies and guidelines which borne the design of one-stop-shop in municipal level for the issuance of the travel permit of bamboo poles, makes the bamboo industry future more doable and viable. President Benigno Aquino issued Executive Order 23 implementing the indefinite log ban and creating an Anti-Illegal Logging Task Force, thus an alternative for wood requirements is much needed which could be replaced by bamboo at par excellence.
INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL MARKET:
Internal market would be the Department of Education for bamboo desks, tables and chairs. For the wooden pallet requirements of the banana industry sector, a bamboo shipping pallets is the replacement. Local home furnishings on parquets and panels, floor tiles and other wood requirements for construction, engineered bamboo products are the remedy to the wood shortage. External market would be China and other Asian countries as they import chopsticks from foreign countries producing bamboo-made chopsticks, a contrasting outlook since China is one of the largest producers of bamboo finished products (http://www.foodista.com/blog/2011/08/04/china-imports-chopsticks-from-us-company).
ABSTRACT
Mindanao, the southernmost major island of the Philippine archipelago, had been endowed with vast and fertile lands, prolific lakes, major rivers were traversing the valleys to irrigate crops and sustaining lives along the riverbanks; Catch basins of Ligwasan Marsh on the central Mindanao Area and Agusan Marsh on the northern part plays a key role in sustaining livelihood and culture of the people surrounding it. But sad to say, forests are gone, slash and burn farming practice, logging and conversion to large scale monocropping and agro industrial crops left those verdant green jungles fallowed. Climate change made a significant effect to other high value crops; fruit trees bear fruit out of season and other fruit trees don’t made it at all. Lake Lanao falls to its unexpected glum of water level thus looming power shortage to entire Mindanao archipelago.
In South Cotabato, especially surrounding major rivers and protected areas, the forests are gone. The soil pours down the hillsides collapsing the banks of rivers, washing out villages, rice and corn fields in its headlong rush to the sea, immensely threatening the food supply. With its near 100 meters above sea level elevation, low lying areas like Sultan Kudarat is the dumping area of the torrential water flow submerging the towns of Lambayong, part of Bagumbayan and other neighboring municipalities. In the outskirts of the province, only export activities left are monocropping plantations. It escalates the level of displacement of habitation and increase the population of urban poor looking for a better future in the urban areas. Back in the rural areas, agriculture has long overdue conflicts on land ownership as well as the recently prevailing land tenure relationships.
BACKGROUD/STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Pampanga, Benguet, Baguio and Cordillera had already institutionalized the Bamboo Industry Development Council. We have this model which we want to replicate here in South Cotabato Province, thus the issuance of EO # 5 creating Bamboo Industry Development Council. We do have these problems in flooding, erratic climate, scarcity of livelihood and we do believe that bamboo plant could do its part in part and partial of the predicament. Now, the Bamboo Advocates has the mission to expand bamboo propagation along riverbanks and riparian zones as the project was spearheaded by the Allah Valley Landscape Development Authority (AVLADA).
Bamboo will be planted on unutilized land areas, most especially adjacent to the flood prone areas, First and foremost, to address global warming and environmental protection, secondly, for sustainable livelihood and develop it for innovative products like Bamboo Chairs, desks and tables for Department of Education requirements, plyboo(ply board made of bamboo), panels, flooring tiles, tegula roofing, MDF(medium density fiberboards) tiles, pencil, charcoal, incense sticks, paper, bamboo fiber for clothing, strand board, toothpick, chopsticks, matchsticks, medicines and other uses. There is a published book of 5,000 different uses of bamboo.
The South Cotabato Province Bamboo Industry Development Council (SCPBIDC) wants to develop and plant more on variety specific for Engineered Bamboo Production like Kawayang Tinik, Botong and Giant Bamboo variety, secondarily on other marketable bamboo varieties endemic in Philippines. With an annual demand from banana plantations of over 12 million poles for propping, the market opportunity justified full-out expansion of cultivated bamboo. Additional effort will come into propagation of Kayali for bamboo shoot production, and other variety for its special uses as well.
B. OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT
The project needs to establish a mini hub for processing of engineered bamboo for Department of Education’s requirements on Bamboo desks, tables and chairs. Other products produced will be sold to local market and institutional buyers like DPWH, Provincial Engineering Office and other NGAs that will use bamboo as wood substitute. Due to proximity of raw materials, Sto. Niño LGU will host the mini hub and the nodes are to be established at Lake Sebu, T’Boli, Norala, Surallah and Banga municipalities.This is the end market of the bamboos being planted by the land owners along riverbanks or riparian zone. Other LGUs with riverbank rehabilitation projects as an additional reforestation material and individuals who has passion for the environment will be benefitted as they earn extra income by selling bamboo poles to a node(pre-processed bamboo slats) centers.
Moreover, to plant with bamboos all the unutilized land areas for re-greening of the province and eventually, the development of a Livelihood and Economic Development Projects (LED Projects).
A. Long Term
In the long run, the proponents are encouraging the spirit of sustainability, the defining of real sustainable livelihood project, continuous plantation of bamboo propagules will be campaigned especially to the CBFM, ISF, IFMA, Riparian Zones, buffer zones and brown lands not suitable for agricultural crops and vegetations. For engineered bamboo production, the proponents as well as the supposed skilled workers will attend formalized training to be conducted by DTI-Cottage Industry Technology Center. will attend national and international forum on bamboo and other related activities, and to share information about research and developments: manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers, new products; product pricing; quality; product reviews; market size of product; and other vital information crucial and beneficial to the individuals involved, for the skills required, bamboo development research on quality and creation of a renewable and sustainable bamboo industry in the process.
The long term objective also is to establish an effective and efficient supply chain of raw materials to the processing plant or the Bamboo Hub at Sto. Niño, South Cotabato up to the final market which is the Department of Education for their requirements in bamboo desks and tables.
B. Short-term
Within the last quarter of 2011, realization on the establishment of a mini hub within the vicinity of Sto. Niño, South Cotabato should be achieved. This is the proximity measure of the manufacturing process since raw materials are relatively abundant around the processing area. Lake Sebu ranked the highest in number of clumps with the variety appropriate as raw materials. Surrounding towns like T’Boli, Norala, Surallah, Banga and Koronadal City will be the other areas from which bamboo poles can be sourced out as raw materials. Form these areas, nodes will be established for the pre-processed bamboo slats requirements of the Hub in Sto. Niño.
Benefits of the Project
People needs those livelihood projects, a sustainable, renewable and undamaging to environment; this could be answered by bamboo as environmental protection and as source of the modern and sustainable livelihood project.
Large scale vegetative propagation of bamboo can be done without massive capital investment or technically specialized workers. Farmers could start bamboo plantation without much cash or capital outlay and planting bamboo is inherent to every farmers in the locality. Bamboo can be the focus of equally large-scale community revitalization efforts.
As this bamboo-based development scheme which is based in an appropriate and accessible end-user market, the DepEd and DPWH as institutional market, this is a doable enterprise for the LGU Sto. Niño. Home demand should be addressed, first and foremost. Low cost housing with affordable building materials will eventually be the trend. Household daily uses that needs bamboo like charcoal for fuel, sanitized sticks for grilled meats, toothpicks, pencil and paper for schoolchildren. Tissue paper for toiletries and offices uses papers for their daily activities.
Community within the array of the processing Hub and bamboo forests will acquire immediate result of the plan. Rice, corn and other cash crop farmers will also reap the protective result being emanated by the bamboo cultivation.
Lastly, addressing the Green House Gases that cause global warming or climate change while maintaining the symbiotic relationship of human and nature, simply called the principle of co-existence.
PROJECT PROPONENT:
South Cotabato Province Bamboo Industry Development Council
Project Components:
• Area Development
• Facilities, Livelihood, etc.,
• Support Industries, Factories and Companies
• Manpower and Skills Development
• Center for Excellence institution for skills training e.g. engineering, human resource management, specialization studies, etc.
• Government Policies
• Internal and external markets
• Other sectors supporting bamboo industry
South Cotabato’s 370,590 hectares wherein 22.7% or 84,124 hectares declared as forestland/timberland.
FUNDING COMPONENT AND FACILITIES:
LGU Sto. Nino had allocated a budget of Php 700,000.00 for the initial capital of the mini hub. This amount will be used for the building structure, power installation, work benches and other primary equipments. RuMEPP will counterpart the initial tools needed for the primary processing and for training of the machinery and electrical tools operations. The capital outlay of LGU Sto. Nino will be the counterpart with provincial LGU. A Bamboo Hub to operate needs nearly Php 10,000,000.00 (DTI-CITC ,Manual on Engineered Bamboo, the Industry, Technology and other information). Minimum requirements for the Hub establishment are:
• 10 laborers
• 50 hectares of bamboo plantation
• 10 M capitalization.
• 12 Nodes (bamboo slat producers)
NODES machineries/equipments:
• Bamboo Pole Cutter - Php 45,000.00
• Twin Rip Saw 75,000.00
• 4s Planer/Sizer and Shaver - 240,000.00
• Treatment Vat or Pond 30,000.00
= = = = = = = = =
Php 390,000.00
: If, the Hub to operate in full shift to meet the supply and demand flow, it needs at least 12 Nodes to stream the pre-processed raw materials – 4s Bamboo Slats. Thus;
Php 390,000.00/node x 12 Nodes = Php 4,680,000.00
FINAL PROCESSING:
Machineries:
-ROUGH MILLING PROCESS
• Kiln Dryer Php 200,000.00
• Moisture Meter Device(Humidity Tester MD812) 1,099.56(ebay)
• Thickness Planer 250,000.00
• Surface Planer and Jointer 140,000.00
• Multi Head Spindle Moulder 2,100,000.00
• Portable belt sander 15,000.00
• Hot Press Machine 1,500,000.00
• High Frequency Laminating Press Machine 1,700,000.00
• Bar clamps and C Clamps(Babco-Bar-and-C-Clamps-18-Pc-Set) 2,364,57(ebay)
• Manual Rollers with Funnel 1,000.00
=============
Php 5,909,464.13
- FINISHING/ MILLING PROCESS
• Surface Planer and Jointer 140,000.00
• Multi head Spindle Moulder 2,100,000.00
• Airless Spray Gun with spray booth 200,000.00
==============
Php 2,440,000.00
NODE ATTACHED ON HUB Php 390,000.00
MILLWRIGHTING EQUIPMENT - 300,000.00
=============
SUB TOTAL Php 8, 649,464.13
MAINTENANCE COST (10%) 864,946.13
=============
TOTAL CAPITAL Php 9,904,410.53
Note: equipment prices are based on DTI - CITC costing, others were sourced out from ebay.
- CAPITAL ON RAW MATERIALS
(50 School Desks Production)
• 6,000 bamboo slats @ 2.00/slat Php 12,000.00
• Cutting and hauling (15%) 900.00
• Gluing, assembling and finishing materials(20%) 2,400.00
• Preservatives(insecticides/sap stain prevention) 5,000.00
• Labor Cost (40%) 4,800.00
===========
Php 25,100.00
• ROI – Php 717.00/armchair x 50 pcs = Php 35,850.00
• Profit Margin 10,750.00(43%)
Salient Features :( on a medium sized public school with 40 classrooms)
• 30,000 poles of choice cut bamboo will be used.
• A regular class of 50 students/room x 40 classrooms = 2,000 2,000 armchairs x 717.00 = Cost = Php 1,434,000.00
• Capital for 2,000 armchairs = Php 1,004,000.00
• 3.12 hectares of rainforest was saved.
• Same number of poles will be used to produce another 2,000 armchairs from same source area of bamboo poles.
SUPPORT INDUSTRIES:
The Cottage Industry Technology Center (CITC) will provide technical knowledge on machine operations and other related trainings for the bamboo industry. DTI South Cotabato thru the special project of RuMEPP will maintain the market linkage, source out investors for the industry and provision of business development services as well as relevant trainings needed to the industry. The Provincial Environment and Management Office (PEMO) with Allah Valley Landscape Development Authority (AVLADA) will carry on with its advocacy program on sustainability of bamboo raw materials through its reforestation and forestation projects. The Department of Agriculture will provide bamboo propagules and other relevant trainings on the nursery management,permaculture and silvicultural management of bamboo plantation. DENR through ERDB, PCCARD and FNRS will augment the needs in research and development. DepEd will be the institutional buyer of the bamboo armchairs, desks and tables. DOST will provide necessary technology and technical assistance. For the sustainability of manpower resources, TESDA will formulate and provide skills trainings related to bamboo production and machine operation thru the technology transfer to be conducted by CITC. The Provincial Government of South Cotabato had already issued an Executive Order and a one-stop-shop on issuance of transport permit of bamboo in support of the initiatives in bamboo industry development and will provide financial assistance and other fundamental support to sustain the industry. Non-government Organization like South Cotabato Bamboo Crafters Association will be the additional support for the production of traditional bamboo products, as bi-products and the Bamboo Growers Association, as a private sector will support supplying propagules in the grass root level of intervention with the bamboo industry development. Thus completing the diamond model for the industry clustering:
MANPOWER AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT:
With the forging of the Memorandum of Agreement between DTI South Cotabato through its RuMEPP Program(Rural Micro Enterprise Promotions Programme) and the Cottage Industry Technology Center (CITC)as it implements programs and projects aimed to provide production enhancing technologies and processes, tooling and equipment, product sample making/materials manipulation, and other related business development services (BDS) to community based enterprises (CBEs), marginalized groups, cooperatives, associations, and other self-help groups with the end-view of transforming them into sustainable and competitive MSMEs. It also helps develop other government and non-government entities as local non-financial BDS providers.
Moreover, the CITC provides skills training, technical consultancy, and common facility services to micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) as well as to the country’s giftwares and holiday decors, fine jewelry, leather footwear, and home furnishing industries.
GOVERNMENT POLICIES:
Executive Order 879 which was issued last May 26, 2010 creates the Philippine Bamboo Industry Development Council. Regional Development Council had considered bamboo as one of the cluster project with vivid future. Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) have identified its development as one of its flagship projects and have initiated the implementation of the engineered bamboo project. South Cotabato Provincial Government had made same effort and an all out support for the issuance of the Executive Order # 5 creating South Cotabato Province Bamboo Industry Development Council (SCPBIDC) and its Implementing Rules and Regulations. The institutionalization of a weeklong Kawayan Festival and the creation of Technical Working Group to formulate policies and guidelines which borne the design of one-stop-shop in municipal level for the issuance of the travel permit of bamboo poles, makes the bamboo industry future more doable and viable. President Benigno Aquino issued Executive Order 23 implementing the indefinite log ban and creating an Anti-Illegal Logging Task Force, thus an alternative for wood requirements is much needed which could be replaced by bamboo at par excellence.
INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL MARKET:
Internal market would be the Department of Education for bamboo desks, tables and chairs. For the wooden pallet requirements of the banana industry sector, a bamboo shipping pallets is the replacement. Local home furnishings on parquets and panels, floor tiles and other wood requirements for construction, engineered bamboo products are the remedy to the wood shortage. External market would be China and other Asian countries as they import chopsticks from foreign countries producing bamboo-made chopsticks, a contrasting outlook since China is one of the largest producers of bamboo finished products (http://www.foodista.com/blog/2011/08/04/china-imports-chopsticks-from-us-company).
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Bamboo Industry Profile in South Cotabato
BAMBOO INDUSTRY PROFILE IN SOUTH COTABATO
Rimmon A. Paren
History of Development
Prior to the advent of industrialization and utilization of negotiable instruments and paper currency transactions, bamboo had played a significant role in the self-sustaining economies in many nations, mostly in Asian nations, that are now clustered together as developing countries, being so, bamboo is still an immediate option for various usage, and it still does in some remote parts of our Asian Continent yet untouched by modern economics and mostly are the member countries of BIMP-EAGA.
Way back to pre –war history, Chinese were planting bamboo for no other reason; it is for their personal use, from housing material, to farming tools, utensils and other basic usage. Today, China ranked as second in number of area planted with bamboo at around 10 million hectares, ranking first is India with 12 million hectares of bamboo. Chinese government had gained revenue of $160 million from bamboo industry and still growing up to this writing.
Still, bamboo is excruciatingly budding its way up, and there have been attempts in numerous parts of the world to address this irony: scientists, engineers, designers, development practitioners have all been part of the cause to these efforts that aimed to gain recognition for bamboo as a modern and immensely useful material. In China, paper made of bamboo was utilized at around 1,500 years ago. The research and development still continue up to this moment.
SYNOPSIS
Bamboo is the fastest growing and most useful plant in the world. One of its most common uses was as a building material for shelters, farming tools, musical instrument. Bamboo houses were a tradition and even today, millions of rural houses in Asia prominently feature bamboo in their construction. Research has proved bamboo’s admirable engineering and mechanical qualities, and its aesthetics have never been in question. Still, when it comes to construction, bamboo has largely remained a poor man’s choice.
POLICIES AND LEGISLATIONS
Focusing on the local scene, Philippines is seizing the trend and opportunities, spearheaded by a private organization, the Rotary Club of Makati Central, borne the Bamboo For Life, the former President of the Rotary Club, Edgardo Manda, initiated the move last 2007 and still working for the bamboo re greening projects in Benguet and Baguio province being the President of Philippine Bamboo Foundation.
With the institutionalization of Philippine Bamboo Industry Development Council of Executive Order 879 issued last May 30, 2009, the development efforts spiraled down to Mindanao and the concept was embraced by South Cotabato Provincial Government, with Department of Trade and Industry (DTI-SC) as the lead government agency. South Cotabato had duplicated the endeavor by issuing EO 5 which was issued last May 2011; this was the replica of effort done by Pampanga Province, which was ideally duplicable down to the city/municipality to barangay level. The EO 5 of South Cotabato is in an extensive support to the week long annual celebration of kawayan Festival.
A one stop shop for permitting of bamboo cutting and hauling was drafted and proposed:
South Cotabato Bamboo Industry Development – In Spotlight
The Province of South Cotabato is situated at the southern part of Mindanao with a total land area of 3,706 square kilometers or 370,590 hectares wherein 22.7% or 84,124 hectares declared as forestland/timberland. It has two (2) declared protected areas, namely the Mt. Matutum Protected Landscape and Allah Valley Protected Landscape. It serves as a major watershed to Silway River drained to General Santos City in the east and Allah, Banga and Marbel rivers that drains towards the provinces of Sultan Kudarat and Maguindanao in the west providing irrigation, domestic use and potable water. Thus, the province has seen the need for the management of the abovementioned areas, thereby creating the Provincial Environment Management Office pursuant to Provincial Ordinance No. 83, series of 2005. It has to carry out the mandates for the protection of forestlands and riparian areas covering the 10 municipalities and 1 city of the province.
Several programs and projects were conceptualized in response to the increasing issues on environment. One of these, the Riparian Zone Revegetation (RZR) program launched last June 2007 in Allah Valley areas spearheaded by the Allah Valley Landscape Development Alliance (AVLDA) in partnership with various others organizations as their program adopters. Riparian areas include minor and major tributaries of Silway, Palian, Marbel, Taplan, Safali, Banga and Allah rivers. The RZR program aims to address adverse impacts of the braiding nature of the river systems within the AVL Landscape, control riverbank erosion and collapse, improve water flow regime, and reduce pollution of surface water and control flood in certain circumstances (AVLDA report). It is one of our strategies to combat the terrible effects of climate change that we are experiencing nowadays.
The program uses bamboo particularly species of afus and bayog as planting materials in respond to the increasing demand of bamboo for katig and for handicrafts and bahay kubo business because of its characteristics that it matures in 4 to five years and multiple harvests every second year up to 120 years. It only requires minimal capital investment for plantation establishment. It is also being promoted because of its notable use for riverbank stabilization and for its remarkable economic benefits. Sadly, their importance to socio-economic development seems to be neglected and ignored. Bamboo was chosen as reforestation species along river / creek banks because it grows more rapidly than tree as much as 15 inches per day and effective in protecting banks and hill slopes against soil erosion. It typically binds 6 cubic meters of soil, more fiber than the fast growing pine tree and generate rhizome (young shoots) network that spans up to 1,000 square meters. One hectare of bamboo plantation seizes 12,000 kilos of carbon dioxide each year compared to trees, of same area which only absorbs 8,000 kilos of pollutants.
South Cotabato rank fifth as the top bamboo producers in the Philippines. In terms of bamboo pole produced per hectare of forest land.
II. Situation:
South Cotabato’s 84,124 hectares forest resources serve as the life support system in the lowlands. The inappropriate farming systems in the upland have greatly affected the environmental condition in the lowlands. These activities contributed to environmental destruction which resulted to exponential increase in soil erosion, uncultivable soil, meandering or braiding of rivers, sludge on main contributories and flashfloods.
Given this situation, the Provincial Environment Management Office implemented the Riparian Zone Re-vegetation (RZR) Program. The Provincial Environment Management Office initiated the RZR activities in the entire province with yearly allocation of PhP 600,000.00 under the Community-based Upland Development and Natural Resources Management and Lake Sebu Rehabilitation, Conservation and Development Program catering 14 barangays of the province. By the third quarter of the year 2011, another 25,000 bamboo seedlings should be planted sporadically all over South Cotabato.
The Provincial Environment Management Office had planted bamboo but suffered severe mortality because of flash floods and others were destroyed by stray animals (48% survived).
Table No. 1.1: Status of Planted Bamboo per municipality/city
Name of City/Municipality # of Planted Bamboos # of Bamboos Survived
Koronadal 2,565 910
Lake Sebu 24,600 10,940
Banga 9,350 3,450
Tupi 12,825 7,480
T’boli 6,430 3,500
Polomolok 2,763 2,487
Tampakan 14,485 6,508
Total 73,018 35,275
Source: Provincial Environment Management Office (PEMO)
Geographic Distribution of Bamboo in South Cotabato
Source:Dr. Ramon Ponce De Leon, PEMO
Update of the Opportunity within the Situation
South Cotabato was nominated as beneficiary of IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development-IFAD is also the main funding agency which creates INBAR-International Network of Bamboo and Rattan emanating the international organizations of bamboo societies around the world like American Bamboo Society, FOBAR in Japan, Chinese Bamboo Society, India Bamboo Society, International Bamboo Foundation, Environmental Bamboo Foundation, World Bamboo Conference and institutionalized the World Bamboo Day which is celebrated every September 18th, in time with the biennial conference of WBC) through the DTI with its Special Project Unit, RuMEPP (Rural Micro Enterprise Promotions Programme) and championing the bamboo as community revitalization tool, understood as the true meaning of sustainable development.
Data banking of bamboo plants and existing industry players were presently prepared by DENR. Hub (bamboo panel processing plant) establishment on area of Polomolok and Sto. Nino was already finalized and Information and Education Campaign is ongoing. On the 3rd Quarter of 2011, PEMO had a goal of planting another 25,000 seedlings of bamboo and large percentage of it was for the Hub raw material requirements. Bamboo trainings and seminars were jointly undertaken by the Provincial Government of South Cotabato and Rural Micro Enterprise Promotion Programme (RuMEPP). Nursery Operators and Bamboo Crafters Association were organized.
LIST OF BAMBOO NURSERY OPERATORS IN SOUTH COTABATO
Name of Operator Location
1 DANNY CABIO Lake Sebu
2 ARIEL DUBLA Lake Sebu
3 KGD. RUEL MANANSALA Tupi
4 CARLOS LAMIGO Tantangan
5 ANASTACIO LORENTE Tantangan
5 ORLANDO ONGAN Koronadal City
6 ELIAS PLASIGO Tampakan
7 SUSANA AREVALO Tampakan
8 ROSE DASALIA Tampakan
9 JANET GUARIN Tampakan
10 RENATO MONIÑO Tampakan
11 ROSE ORTEGA Tampakan
12 ARIEL ULYAMOT Tampakan
13 WILMA PEÑARANDA Tampakan
14 PACIFICO DIOT Tampakan
15 BASILIO GONZAGA Tampakan
16 IAN SAGUINDAN Tampakan
17 JESUS MASAYON Tampakan
South Cotabato Bamboo Crafters Association
List of Officers and Members
(DOLE REG. ROXII -2011-202)
President: Jessie Navarro
Vice President: Rozander Apitong
Secretary: Editha Sabalza
Treasurer: Cristita Rabong
Membership/Credit Committee: Felix Hilado
Audit/Inventory Committee: Aurelio Launio
Education Committee: Rozander Apitong
Monitoring/Evaluation Committee: Ernesto Baterbonia
Association Members:
1. Cris Apitong 10. Danny Laureano
2. Angie Sabalza 11. Maria Fe Magno
3. Marjun Lago 12. Ken Jumilla
4. Rizaldy Gayosa 13. Jose Antonio Serra
5. RJ Asperga 14. Rennie Olarte
6. Romeo Dela Peña 15. Jean Garzon
7. Romy Launio 16. Niel Roy Apitong
8. Jenalyn Gananan 17. Jimboy Sabalza
9. Edgardo Asperga 18. Ronaflor Apitong
A Hub for Engineered Bamboo
Since a Hub would require a 50 hectares of bamboo plantation (afus, botong, kawayang tinik), data below gives us the figure of viability of the project. Afus(Dendrocalamus Asper) variety had a total actual clump of 17, 315, Botong (Gigantochloa Levis) had a total stand of 14,189 and Kawayang Tinik (Bambusa Blumeana) has 4,989 and summing it up:36,493 clumps and if an hectare of bamboo could contain 400 clumps, that would be 91.2 hectares and obviously more than enough for the 50 hectares requirement of a hub to carry on. Never the less, bamboo plantation is ongoing and private investors are interested in going into the venture. Riparian Zones are still the priority project of the Provincial Environment Management Office with the co-management of LGU, NGO and POs.
Table No. 2: List of harvestable bamboo per municipality
Municipality Number of Bamboo Clumps
Afus Bayog Botong Kawayan Tinik Bolo Laak Patong Dalusan Kiling Kagingking
Koronadal 60 2,430 2,380 1,680 50 200
Tampakan 1,749 392 2,359 593 40 1,600 474 315
Tantangan 135 125 547 632 214
Tupi 1,455 44 509 97 80 82 13 107
Polomolok 660 2,180 333
Surallah 596
Banga 548 287 714 1,254
Norala 255
Sto. Niño
Lake Sebu 12,708 5,500 145 170
T’boli 502 200 5,348
TOTAL 17,315 20,793 14,189 4,989 120 7,544 556 213 491 315
Source: PEMO
A Memorandum of Agreement was already inked between DTI South Cotabato and Cottage Industry Training Center (CITC) for the trainings on nursery and plantation management, machine operation and Quality Controlling. The hub will produce bamboo planks for the requirements of DepEd for Bamboo armchairs, desks and tables. Commitment of SDS Dr. Fontanilla of DepEd South Cotabato is to procure the equivalent of at least twenty percent (20%) of the annual school desks and arm chair requirement of all public elementary and secondary schools.
Bamboo panels will be supplied to the furniture manufacturers for further assemblage of desks and tables who will pass the standard of DepEd Evaluators.
INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT
CAPITALIZATION FOR HUB ESTABLISHMENT
Machine Tools and Equipment Remarks Indicative Cost
1 Primary Processing
Bamboo Pole Cutter Locally fabricated 45,000.00
Twin Rip Saw -do- 75,000.00
Treatment Vat or Pond -do- 30,000.00
2 Kiln Drying Operation
Options: Wood fired, Dutch Furnace
5000 bd. ft cap. 400,000.00
Electric /gas fired 1000 bd. ft. 200,000.00
3 Final Processing (Planks/Panel)
3.1 Planing Operations
Options :6 Spindle Moulder
High volume production S4S, stand alone equipment 2,100,000.00
4 Side Planer: High volume production of S4S 240,000.00
a) Jointer Planer 200,000.00
b) Thickness planer 250,000.00
3.2 Side & End Profiling
Options
a) 6 spindle moulder Used as planing, side profiling of planks 2,100,000.00
b) Single Spindle moulder Used in conjunction w/ 4 side planer 180,000.00
c) End Matching For high volume production 180,000.00
d Circular Saw Used w/Jointer, thickness planer 140,000.00
3.3 Gluing
Options
Ordinary Roller For lower volume production 500.00
Manual rollers W/ Funnel 4”-6” Width 1,000.00
Motorized Rollers - 18”- 24” W 250,000.00
3.4 Lamination
Options
Table Press w/ pneumatic press and compressor 150,000.00
Cold Press 600,000.00
Radio Frequency (RF) 1,700,000.00
Hot Press 1,500,000.00
3.5 Cutting Operation
Options
Arm Saw 120,000.00
Circular Saw 210,000.00
3.6 Sanding Operation
Options
Portable belt sander 4” by 12” 15,000.00
Wide Belt Sander 18”-24”W 650,000.00
4 Finishing System
Options
Air compressor w/ Spray Gun 30,000.00
Airless spray gun w/ spray booth 200,000.00
5 Millwrighting Equipment
Sharpening for Circular Saw 150,000.00
Grinder for Planer Knives 150,000.00
TOTAL 9,571,000.00
SOURCE: DTI-CITC
PLANTATION CASHFLOW (Rey Millan)
A one hectare of fallowed land planted with Dendrocalamus Asper (apos) with a total population of 625 clumps, woul yield. (less:expenses-cutting, hauling)
SALES(POLES) (assumed on 6th year)
18 FEET 625 CLUMPS x 6 = 3,750 x 16.00 = 60,000.00
16 FEET 625 CLUMPS x 6 = 3,750 x 9.00 = 33,750.00
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PhP 93,750.00
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INCOME 93,750.00
- 37,500.00 (Labor)
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PhP 56,250.00 NET PROFIT/ YEAR/hectare
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FINANCIAL REQUIREMENTS (BAMBOO NODE-semi processed bamboo slats)
Bamboo Production
Total Project Cost
Particulars Amount
Assets
Land Development Cost 23,770.00
Fixed Assets
8-Bladed Manual Splitter 3,500.00
Sub-total 27,270.00
Working Capital (1 Year)
Operating Expenses 32,500.00
Sub-total 32,500.00
Total Project Cost 59,770.00
TPC excludes the land cost.
Underlying Assumptions:
• No. of planting hills in one (1) hectare is 210.
• Ave. yield/plant is 5 poles per year starting year 5.
• Ave. yield/ hectare is 1,050 poles.
• Each pole can produce 88 sticks of 3 feet long.
• Selling price is Php 1.00 per stick, which will increase by 10% per annum.
• Expenses will increase by 10% per annum.
• Fixed assets are depreciated using the straight line method for 5 years.
• Land Development Cost is amortized using the straight line method for 30 years.
• Delivery cost is shouldered by the buyer, Amadeo Group of Company.
PROJECTED SALES AND INCOME (1 year cropping cycle)
Bamboo Production
Projected Sales and Income
Particulars Year 1-4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7
No. of culms per hectare 210
Multiply: Ave. no. of poles/culm 5
Total no. of pole 1050 1050 1050 1050
Multiply: Ave. sticks produced per pole 88 88 88
Total sticks produced (3 ft. long) 92,400 92,400 92,400
Frequency of Harvest per Year 1 1 1
Total sticks produced (3 ft. long) 92,400 92,400 92,400
Selling price per stick 1.00 1.10 1.21
Total Sales 92,400.00 101,640.00 111,804.00
Less: Production Cost
Overhead
Depreciation Expense 700.00 700.00 700.00
Amortization Expense 792.33 792.33 792.33
Sub-total 1,492.33 1,492.33 1,492.33
Gross Profit 90,907.67 100,147.67 110,311.67
Less: Operating Expenses 32,500.00 35,750.00 39,325.00
Net Income before Tax 58,407.67 64,397.67 70,986.67
Return on Investment (Ave. Net Income/ TPC) 316%
Payback Period (TPC/ Ave. Net Income + Dep'n. + Amort'n.) 1 Year
Gross Profit Ratio (Gross Profit/ Total Sales) 98% 99% 99%
Net Margin Ratio (Net Income/ Total Sales) 63% 63% 63%
*EUL - Estimated Useful Life (SOURCE DTI NERBAC12)
BAMBOO USAGE IN SOUTH COTABATO
WINDBREAK
Whirlwinds or small tornadoes are regularly hitting flat areas, good as a windbreak.
FLOOD CONTROL
Monocropping is widespread all over the province, recommending the bamboo as a protective plant for flash floods and buffer zones.
TAILING POND BIO TREATMENT
With the presence of mining firms, it is recommended that they should have a tailing pond planted with bamboo. Benguet mining companies are now gaining approval rating over skeptics by using bamboo as revitalizing tool. Bamboo planted on tailings ponds absorbs lead, cadmium, copper and other toxic metals and chemicals, reducing the toxins in the soil. An advocate, however, warned the toxins may transfer to humans, especially the parts eaten by or are exposed to the human skin.
Economic benefits can also be derived from by-products that come from the leaves, sheath, trunk, shoots and roots of the bamboo.
FOR FOOD SECURITY
With Banga as corn capital and Surallah, Norala and Sto. Nino as rice granary, we need to protect the watershed area that irrigates the rice paddies. Fresh and pristine water provides nourishment to valuable crops and promises a bountiful harvest. Reducing the torrential flooding of rain waters on the landlocked areas, plants flourishing on the plane will be free from inundation.
BAMBOO AS LIVELIHOOD
COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION TOOL
SUPPLY AND DEMAND
CURRENT MARKET (TRADITIONAL)
1. Top Producers of Bamboo Poles and Split:T’boli,Koronadal,Lake Sebu
Price Range: Delivered to Gen. Santos City
Pole: PhP450.00 to 500.00
Split: ~PhP35.00/bundle (12 pcs/bundle), 6 ft in length
Pick up Price:
Pole: Afus : PhP60.00/pole (45 ft)
Botong: PhP10.00/pole (32 ft)
Bayog & Kawayan: PhP30.00 (35 ft)
Split: ~PhP1.00/pc (12 pcs/bundle) 6 ft in length
2. Top Producers of bamboo for banana props: T’boli ,Tampakan
Price Range of Pole: ~ PhP6.00 (pick up price) ~ PhP12.00 (delivery price)
3. Producers of bahay kubo, furniture and other handicrafts
>>Tampakan, Koronadal, Banga, Tantangan, Tupi, Polomolok
ENGINEERED BAMBOO FOR DESKS AND TABLES
INDUSTRY PLAYERS:
1. NURSERY OPERATORS
2. BAMBOO PLANTATION INVESTORS
3. PLANTATION WORKERS
4. TRUCK HAULERS
5. BAMBOO PROCESSORS
6. CRAFTSMEN
7. BAMBOO MILLING OPERATORS
8. CONSOLIDATORS
Industry Processes
Value Chain in bamboo production was foreseen as viable business. Nursery operators can now rake wealth from bamboo propagation. Serious land owners who understands the potential of bamboo is the conceived buyers of propagules. Land Owners then can have a centennial source of income from bamboo as the supplier of the raw materials needed for bamboo millers, processors and local market. Investors on laminated bamboo panels or planks will exploit the gap of the market of bamboo which is 13 million tons out of 26 million tons of market demand worldwide and still growing.
Engineered bamboo is produced by laminating or gluing two or more layers of crushed, split, or veneered bamboo which can be made into engineered floors, chopping boards, table tops and furniture. This technology is developed by Mariano Marcos State University (MMSU) in Batac, Ilocos Norte.
Skill Sets
Being strategically located at Asian continent, bamboo is basically part of the culture and tradition of Filipino people, thus skills appropriate for bamboo production is not a hindrance. TESDA is now preparing a module for the refinement of the skills training for bamboo production.
Employment
Along the process, from nursery to the laminated bamboo planks finished product, a single industry can mobilize 409 skilled individuals. 14 from nursery operation, 252 for the plantation management and harvesting, 77 people will be engaged in pre-processed and final process, 19 skilled people for the finishing process and finally 47 people for the sales and marketing of the bamboo finished products.
Alongside the industry development, waste products like cuttings, saw dusts, twigs, leaves and other residual materials during the process could be utilized and could provide as a livelihood as well. Bamboo sheaths can be used as platter for finger foods. Bamboo cuttings for charcoal, twigs and leaves for mats, rugs, clothing, mattress and bath towels. Bamboo shoots for processed food and surplus on bamboo shoots could be processed for livestock fodder since it is high in crude protein.
Environmental Impact
Re greening the province as well as the urban and rural areas is the best remedy for the global warming, climate change and greenhouse gases, these three factors are indicators for a global warning. Environmentalist have these concerns; ABC News has obtained a preliminary draft of the upcoming report on climate change, which shows a grim outlook on the effects of global warming and emphasizes that scientists are more convinced than ever that humans are causing it.
"We're hoping that it will convince people, you know, that climate change is real," said Kenneth Denman, co-author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. (source: http://abcnews.go.com-2007)
This report says that we have ten years clock to restore our green planet or we will suffer the irreversible damage. Thus bamboo is well suited for the re greening process for it has a span of only five years. At half a decade, it is already a fully grown mature plant and outranked dipterocarps in carbon sink capacity as well in oxygen emission and carbon dioxide absorption.
Another research proves that the use of bamboo as an ingredient in biofuel is a topic that comes up frequently in renewable energy talks. Can bamboo really be a source of renewable energy? The process of converting a biomass to a liquid energy source can be fairly difficult in the case of the bamboo plant. The plant is hardy and not easy to harvest, but produces a high level of biomass. Researchers are looking for a method of harnessing the energy of bamboo and there have been several proposed methods of doing so.
Fischer-Tropsch Process for Bamboo Bio Diesel
The Fischer-Tropsch is a multi step process of converting biomass to biofuel. In a nutshell, this process a catalyzed chemical reaction that takes a gas mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, and converts it into liquid hydrocarbons. This reaction will take place in temperatures between 150-200 degrees Celsius. The resulting hydrocarbons are the basis of fuels used into today's world, and are a great alternative to petroleum. Although this process is successfully creating biodiesel today... The big question remains as to whether or not bamboo can be a useful basis in this process. It is rich in carbon, but it could be a long time before it can be used effectively in this process. There exists very little practical experimentation with bamboo in the Fischer-Tropsch process, but the idea has been put forth.
The Future of Bamboo in Biofuels
If bamboo could be efficiently converted into fuel, the rise of bamboo as a non-food crop could grow in the United States. Deforested areas could be colonized by bamboo four times faster than most native plants. Private property owners would also have more incentive to grow bamboo to become energy self sufficient. There is already an abundance of bamboo throughout Asia, and its popularity is growing rapidly in the United States. If a legitimate process of converting its mass into liquid fuel were developed, one would assume that its popularity would only grow larger. This would allow people to produce rapidly growing fuel sources, and discontinue the use of petrol based fuels. The future is exciting for bamboo bio-fuel and we will post future updates as we receive them.
Dr. Foronda is endorsing bamboo for clean bio oil and bio coal, a best replacement for coal mining to fire up power plants in our looming power shortage, he says that 1,000 hectares of bamboo plantation could supply a daily output of 70-75 tons per day. Invest in Bamboo Bio-oil Production and make money!Reduce dependence on fossil fuels, reduce GHG emissions, protect the environment and create jobs, he added.
We will be moving on from vicious cycle to virtuous cycle, plant bamboo and no need to replant for another 100 years.
Outlook
The allure of the Asian aesthetic, particularly in using bamboo materials to endow products an essence of simplicity, has created a continuously growing market in the recent years. Environment conscious buyers have considered the durability and renewability of the plant being a natural and eco-friendly alternative to more traditional wood choices. With a tensile strength of 28,000 per square inch versus 23,000 per square inch for steel, and a weight-to-strength ratio better than graphite, bamboo is the strongest growing woody plant on Earth making it a viable replacement for wood.
World trade on bamboo and bamboo products was estimated at $12 billion in 2002 and was growing at two billion US dollars ($2B) yearly (Annex 1). Bamboo flooring enjoys a very good demand especially in environment-conscious Europe where people are willing to pay more than $100 per square meter of bamboo flooring compared to only about $25 per square meter for a floor made of oak. (DTI12-nerbac).
Through the Philippine International Eco-Show, we hope to raise awareness and inspire change in the way people treat their environment… We are looking for partners for this project who share the same vision of a greener world,” CITEM Deputy Executive Director and the Eco-Show’s Program Director Maria Thelma Dumpit-Murillo said.
PBFI President Edgardo Manda noted that “bamboo, which grows to maturity in just four to five years and grows well in a tropical climate, is best for reforestation.”
“Converting large areas of grassland into bamboo forests will increase farmers’ incomes and expand their work opportunities,” said Manda.
China has nurtured over 6 million hectares of bamboo forests, which sustain a $2 billion-plus annual export industry that makes food, medicine, beverages, tiles, textile, furniture, and handicraft, among other things, of bamboo.
We are giving priority to using bamboo in reforestation for various reasons. One is the fact that some bamboos still stand in many areas needing reforestation. Bamboo can provide forest cover while giving significant economic benefits. China’s bamboo industry is worth billions of dollars.
Business leader Wash Sycip, the first donor for our Aeta Village in Tarlac, has suggested that I look at bamboo for our reforestation project in the village. Recently, with the help of the Philippine Bamboo Foundation headed by Ed Manda and the International Network on Bamboo and Rattan in Beijing, I got to see China’s bamboo industry in the province of Zheijang.
What I saw impressed me, as well as other Filipinos who visited China’s bamboo industry. Mountains that used to be denuded are now covered with beautiful green bamboo. Farmers live in nice houses. Companies are expanding their factories to process bamboo for food, textile, beauty and wellness, furniture and fixtures, and construction of buildings. Part of their production output is exported to the US and other developed countries that have high demand for bamboo products”.
Rimmon A. Paren
History of Development
Prior to the advent of industrialization and utilization of negotiable instruments and paper currency transactions, bamboo had played a significant role in the self-sustaining economies in many nations, mostly in Asian nations, that are now clustered together as developing countries, being so, bamboo is still an immediate option for various usage, and it still does in some remote parts of our Asian Continent yet untouched by modern economics and mostly are the member countries of BIMP-EAGA.
Way back to pre –war history, Chinese were planting bamboo for no other reason; it is for their personal use, from housing material, to farming tools, utensils and other basic usage. Today, China ranked as second in number of area planted with bamboo at around 10 million hectares, ranking first is India with 12 million hectares of bamboo. Chinese government had gained revenue of $160 million from bamboo industry and still growing up to this writing.
Still, bamboo is excruciatingly budding its way up, and there have been attempts in numerous parts of the world to address this irony: scientists, engineers, designers, development practitioners have all been part of the cause to these efforts that aimed to gain recognition for bamboo as a modern and immensely useful material. In China, paper made of bamboo was utilized at around 1,500 years ago. The research and development still continue up to this moment.
SYNOPSIS
Bamboo is the fastest growing and most useful plant in the world. One of its most common uses was as a building material for shelters, farming tools, musical instrument. Bamboo houses were a tradition and even today, millions of rural houses in Asia prominently feature bamboo in their construction. Research has proved bamboo’s admirable engineering and mechanical qualities, and its aesthetics have never been in question. Still, when it comes to construction, bamboo has largely remained a poor man’s choice.
POLICIES AND LEGISLATIONS
Focusing on the local scene, Philippines is seizing the trend and opportunities, spearheaded by a private organization, the Rotary Club of Makati Central, borne the Bamboo For Life, the former President of the Rotary Club, Edgardo Manda, initiated the move last 2007 and still working for the bamboo re greening projects in Benguet and Baguio province being the President of Philippine Bamboo Foundation.
With the institutionalization of Philippine Bamboo Industry Development Council of Executive Order 879 issued last May 30, 2009, the development efforts spiraled down to Mindanao and the concept was embraced by South Cotabato Provincial Government, with Department of Trade and Industry (DTI-SC) as the lead government agency. South Cotabato had duplicated the endeavor by issuing EO 5 which was issued last May 2011; this was the replica of effort done by Pampanga Province, which was ideally duplicable down to the city/municipality to barangay level. The EO 5 of South Cotabato is in an extensive support to the week long annual celebration of kawayan Festival.
A one stop shop for permitting of bamboo cutting and hauling was drafted and proposed:
South Cotabato Bamboo Industry Development – In Spotlight
The Province of South Cotabato is situated at the southern part of Mindanao with a total land area of 3,706 square kilometers or 370,590 hectares wherein 22.7% or 84,124 hectares declared as forestland/timberland. It has two (2) declared protected areas, namely the Mt. Matutum Protected Landscape and Allah Valley Protected Landscape. It serves as a major watershed to Silway River drained to General Santos City in the east and Allah, Banga and Marbel rivers that drains towards the provinces of Sultan Kudarat and Maguindanao in the west providing irrigation, domestic use and potable water. Thus, the province has seen the need for the management of the abovementioned areas, thereby creating the Provincial Environment Management Office pursuant to Provincial Ordinance No. 83, series of 2005. It has to carry out the mandates for the protection of forestlands and riparian areas covering the 10 municipalities and 1 city of the province.
Several programs and projects were conceptualized in response to the increasing issues on environment. One of these, the Riparian Zone Revegetation (RZR) program launched last June 2007 in Allah Valley areas spearheaded by the Allah Valley Landscape Development Alliance (AVLDA) in partnership with various others organizations as their program adopters. Riparian areas include minor and major tributaries of Silway, Palian, Marbel, Taplan, Safali, Banga and Allah rivers. The RZR program aims to address adverse impacts of the braiding nature of the river systems within the AVL Landscape, control riverbank erosion and collapse, improve water flow regime, and reduce pollution of surface water and control flood in certain circumstances (AVLDA report). It is one of our strategies to combat the terrible effects of climate change that we are experiencing nowadays.
The program uses bamboo particularly species of afus and bayog as planting materials in respond to the increasing demand of bamboo for katig and for handicrafts and bahay kubo business because of its characteristics that it matures in 4 to five years and multiple harvests every second year up to 120 years. It only requires minimal capital investment for plantation establishment. It is also being promoted because of its notable use for riverbank stabilization and for its remarkable economic benefits. Sadly, their importance to socio-economic development seems to be neglected and ignored. Bamboo was chosen as reforestation species along river / creek banks because it grows more rapidly than tree as much as 15 inches per day and effective in protecting banks and hill slopes against soil erosion. It typically binds 6 cubic meters of soil, more fiber than the fast growing pine tree and generate rhizome (young shoots) network that spans up to 1,000 square meters. One hectare of bamboo plantation seizes 12,000 kilos of carbon dioxide each year compared to trees, of same area which only absorbs 8,000 kilos of pollutants.
South Cotabato rank fifth as the top bamboo producers in the Philippines. In terms of bamboo pole produced per hectare of forest land.
II. Situation:
South Cotabato’s 84,124 hectares forest resources serve as the life support system in the lowlands. The inappropriate farming systems in the upland have greatly affected the environmental condition in the lowlands. These activities contributed to environmental destruction which resulted to exponential increase in soil erosion, uncultivable soil, meandering or braiding of rivers, sludge on main contributories and flashfloods.
Given this situation, the Provincial Environment Management Office implemented the Riparian Zone Re-vegetation (RZR) Program. The Provincial Environment Management Office initiated the RZR activities in the entire province with yearly allocation of PhP 600,000.00 under the Community-based Upland Development and Natural Resources Management and Lake Sebu Rehabilitation, Conservation and Development Program catering 14 barangays of the province. By the third quarter of the year 2011, another 25,000 bamboo seedlings should be planted sporadically all over South Cotabato.
The Provincial Environment Management Office had planted bamboo but suffered severe mortality because of flash floods and others were destroyed by stray animals (48% survived).
Table No. 1.1: Status of Planted Bamboo per municipality/city
Name of City/Municipality # of Planted Bamboos # of Bamboos Survived
Koronadal 2,565 910
Lake Sebu 24,600 10,940
Banga 9,350 3,450
Tupi 12,825 7,480
T’boli 6,430 3,500
Polomolok 2,763 2,487
Tampakan 14,485 6,508
Total 73,018 35,275
Source: Provincial Environment Management Office (PEMO)
Geographic Distribution of Bamboo in South Cotabato
Source:Dr. Ramon Ponce De Leon, PEMO
Update of the Opportunity within the Situation
South Cotabato was nominated as beneficiary of IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development-IFAD is also the main funding agency which creates INBAR-International Network of Bamboo and Rattan emanating the international organizations of bamboo societies around the world like American Bamboo Society, FOBAR in Japan, Chinese Bamboo Society, India Bamboo Society, International Bamboo Foundation, Environmental Bamboo Foundation, World Bamboo Conference and institutionalized the World Bamboo Day which is celebrated every September 18th, in time with the biennial conference of WBC) through the DTI with its Special Project Unit, RuMEPP (Rural Micro Enterprise Promotions Programme) and championing the bamboo as community revitalization tool, understood as the true meaning of sustainable development.
Data banking of bamboo plants and existing industry players were presently prepared by DENR. Hub (bamboo panel processing plant) establishment on area of Polomolok and Sto. Nino was already finalized and Information and Education Campaign is ongoing. On the 3rd Quarter of 2011, PEMO had a goal of planting another 25,000 seedlings of bamboo and large percentage of it was for the Hub raw material requirements. Bamboo trainings and seminars were jointly undertaken by the Provincial Government of South Cotabato and Rural Micro Enterprise Promotion Programme (RuMEPP). Nursery Operators and Bamboo Crafters Association were organized.
LIST OF BAMBOO NURSERY OPERATORS IN SOUTH COTABATO
Name of Operator Location
1 DANNY CABIO Lake Sebu
2 ARIEL DUBLA Lake Sebu
3 KGD. RUEL MANANSALA Tupi
4 CARLOS LAMIGO Tantangan
5 ANASTACIO LORENTE Tantangan
5 ORLANDO ONGAN Koronadal City
6 ELIAS PLASIGO Tampakan
7 SUSANA AREVALO Tampakan
8 ROSE DASALIA Tampakan
9 JANET GUARIN Tampakan
10 RENATO MONIÑO Tampakan
11 ROSE ORTEGA Tampakan
12 ARIEL ULYAMOT Tampakan
13 WILMA PEÑARANDA Tampakan
14 PACIFICO DIOT Tampakan
15 BASILIO GONZAGA Tampakan
16 IAN SAGUINDAN Tampakan
17 JESUS MASAYON Tampakan
South Cotabato Bamboo Crafters Association
List of Officers and Members
(DOLE REG. ROXII -2011-202)
President: Jessie Navarro
Vice President: Rozander Apitong
Secretary: Editha Sabalza
Treasurer: Cristita Rabong
Membership/Credit Committee: Felix Hilado
Audit/Inventory Committee: Aurelio Launio
Education Committee: Rozander Apitong
Monitoring/Evaluation Committee: Ernesto Baterbonia
Association Members:
1. Cris Apitong 10. Danny Laureano
2. Angie Sabalza 11. Maria Fe Magno
3. Marjun Lago 12. Ken Jumilla
4. Rizaldy Gayosa 13. Jose Antonio Serra
5. RJ Asperga 14. Rennie Olarte
6. Romeo Dela Peña 15. Jean Garzon
7. Romy Launio 16. Niel Roy Apitong
8. Jenalyn Gananan 17. Jimboy Sabalza
9. Edgardo Asperga 18. Ronaflor Apitong
A Hub for Engineered Bamboo
Since a Hub would require a 50 hectares of bamboo plantation (afus, botong, kawayang tinik), data below gives us the figure of viability of the project. Afus(Dendrocalamus Asper) variety had a total actual clump of 17, 315, Botong (Gigantochloa Levis) had a total stand of 14,189 and Kawayang Tinik (Bambusa Blumeana) has 4,989 and summing it up:36,493 clumps and if an hectare of bamboo could contain 400 clumps, that would be 91.2 hectares and obviously more than enough for the 50 hectares requirement of a hub to carry on. Never the less, bamboo plantation is ongoing and private investors are interested in going into the venture. Riparian Zones are still the priority project of the Provincial Environment Management Office with the co-management of LGU, NGO and POs.
Table No. 2: List of harvestable bamboo per municipality
Municipality Number of Bamboo Clumps
Afus Bayog Botong Kawayan Tinik Bolo Laak Patong Dalusan Kiling Kagingking
Koronadal 60 2,430 2,380 1,680 50 200
Tampakan 1,749 392 2,359 593 40 1,600 474 315
Tantangan 135 125 547 632 214
Tupi 1,455 44 509 97 80 82 13 107
Polomolok 660 2,180 333
Surallah 596
Banga 548 287 714 1,254
Norala 255
Sto. Niño
Lake Sebu 12,708 5,500 145 170
T’boli 502 200 5,348
TOTAL 17,315 20,793 14,189 4,989 120 7,544 556 213 491 315
Source: PEMO
A Memorandum of Agreement was already inked between DTI South Cotabato and Cottage Industry Training Center (CITC) for the trainings on nursery and plantation management, machine operation and Quality Controlling. The hub will produce bamboo planks for the requirements of DepEd for Bamboo armchairs, desks and tables. Commitment of SDS Dr. Fontanilla of DepEd South Cotabato is to procure the equivalent of at least twenty percent (20%) of the annual school desks and arm chair requirement of all public elementary and secondary schools.
Bamboo panels will be supplied to the furniture manufacturers for further assemblage of desks and tables who will pass the standard of DepEd Evaluators.
INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT
CAPITALIZATION FOR HUB ESTABLISHMENT
Machine Tools and Equipment Remarks Indicative Cost
1 Primary Processing
Bamboo Pole Cutter Locally fabricated 45,000.00
Twin Rip Saw -do- 75,000.00
Treatment Vat or Pond -do- 30,000.00
2 Kiln Drying Operation
Options: Wood fired, Dutch Furnace
5000 bd. ft cap. 400,000.00
Electric /gas fired 1000 bd. ft. 200,000.00
3 Final Processing (Planks/Panel)
3.1 Planing Operations
Options :6 Spindle Moulder
High volume production S4S, stand alone equipment 2,100,000.00
4 Side Planer: High volume production of S4S 240,000.00
a) Jointer Planer 200,000.00
b) Thickness planer 250,000.00
3.2 Side & End Profiling
Options
a) 6 spindle moulder Used as planing, side profiling of planks 2,100,000.00
b) Single Spindle moulder Used in conjunction w/ 4 side planer 180,000.00
c) End Matching For high volume production 180,000.00
d Circular Saw Used w/Jointer, thickness planer 140,000.00
3.3 Gluing
Options
Ordinary Roller For lower volume production 500.00
Manual rollers W/ Funnel 4”-6” Width 1,000.00
Motorized Rollers - 18”- 24” W 250,000.00
3.4 Lamination
Options
Table Press w/ pneumatic press and compressor 150,000.00
Cold Press 600,000.00
Radio Frequency (RF) 1,700,000.00
Hot Press 1,500,000.00
3.5 Cutting Operation
Options
Arm Saw 120,000.00
Circular Saw 210,000.00
3.6 Sanding Operation
Options
Portable belt sander 4” by 12” 15,000.00
Wide Belt Sander 18”-24”W 650,000.00
4 Finishing System
Options
Air compressor w/ Spray Gun 30,000.00
Airless spray gun w/ spray booth 200,000.00
5 Millwrighting Equipment
Sharpening for Circular Saw 150,000.00
Grinder for Planer Knives 150,000.00
TOTAL 9,571,000.00
SOURCE: DTI-CITC
PLANTATION CASHFLOW (Rey Millan)
A one hectare of fallowed land planted with Dendrocalamus Asper (apos) with a total population of 625 clumps, woul yield. (less:expenses-cutting, hauling)
SALES(POLES) (assumed on 6th year)
18 FEET 625 CLUMPS x 6 = 3,750 x 16.00 = 60,000.00
16 FEET 625 CLUMPS x 6 = 3,750 x 9.00 = 33,750.00
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PhP 93,750.00
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INCOME 93,750.00
- 37,500.00 (Labor)
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PhP 56,250.00 NET PROFIT/ YEAR/hectare
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FINANCIAL REQUIREMENTS (BAMBOO NODE-semi processed bamboo slats)
Bamboo Production
Total Project Cost
Particulars Amount
Assets
Land Development Cost 23,770.00
Fixed Assets
8-Bladed Manual Splitter 3,500.00
Sub-total 27,270.00
Working Capital (1 Year)
Operating Expenses 32,500.00
Sub-total 32,500.00
Total Project Cost 59,770.00
TPC excludes the land cost.
Underlying Assumptions:
• No. of planting hills in one (1) hectare is 210.
• Ave. yield/plant is 5 poles per year starting year 5.
• Ave. yield/ hectare is 1,050 poles.
• Each pole can produce 88 sticks of 3 feet long.
• Selling price is Php 1.00 per stick, which will increase by 10% per annum.
• Expenses will increase by 10% per annum.
• Fixed assets are depreciated using the straight line method for 5 years.
• Land Development Cost is amortized using the straight line method for 30 years.
• Delivery cost is shouldered by the buyer, Amadeo Group of Company.
PROJECTED SALES AND INCOME (1 year cropping cycle)
Bamboo Production
Projected Sales and Income
Particulars Year 1-4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7
No. of culms per hectare 210
Multiply: Ave. no. of poles/culm 5
Total no. of pole 1050 1050 1050 1050
Multiply: Ave. sticks produced per pole 88 88 88
Total sticks produced (3 ft. long) 92,400 92,400 92,400
Frequency of Harvest per Year 1 1 1
Total sticks produced (3 ft. long) 92,400 92,400 92,400
Selling price per stick 1.00 1.10 1.21
Total Sales 92,400.00 101,640.00 111,804.00
Less: Production Cost
Overhead
Depreciation Expense 700.00 700.00 700.00
Amortization Expense 792.33 792.33 792.33
Sub-total 1,492.33 1,492.33 1,492.33
Gross Profit 90,907.67 100,147.67 110,311.67
Less: Operating Expenses 32,500.00 35,750.00 39,325.00
Net Income before Tax 58,407.67 64,397.67 70,986.67
Return on Investment (Ave. Net Income/ TPC) 316%
Payback Period (TPC/ Ave. Net Income + Dep'n. + Amort'n.) 1 Year
Gross Profit Ratio (Gross Profit/ Total Sales) 98% 99% 99%
Net Margin Ratio (Net Income/ Total Sales) 63% 63% 63%
*EUL - Estimated Useful Life (SOURCE DTI NERBAC12)
BAMBOO USAGE IN SOUTH COTABATO
WINDBREAK
Whirlwinds or small tornadoes are regularly hitting flat areas, good as a windbreak.
FLOOD CONTROL
Monocropping is widespread all over the province, recommending the bamboo as a protective plant for flash floods and buffer zones.
TAILING POND BIO TREATMENT
With the presence of mining firms, it is recommended that they should have a tailing pond planted with bamboo. Benguet mining companies are now gaining approval rating over skeptics by using bamboo as revitalizing tool. Bamboo planted on tailings ponds absorbs lead, cadmium, copper and other toxic metals and chemicals, reducing the toxins in the soil. An advocate, however, warned the toxins may transfer to humans, especially the parts eaten by or are exposed to the human skin.
Economic benefits can also be derived from by-products that come from the leaves, sheath, trunk, shoots and roots of the bamboo.
FOR FOOD SECURITY
With Banga as corn capital and Surallah, Norala and Sto. Nino as rice granary, we need to protect the watershed area that irrigates the rice paddies. Fresh and pristine water provides nourishment to valuable crops and promises a bountiful harvest. Reducing the torrential flooding of rain waters on the landlocked areas, plants flourishing on the plane will be free from inundation.
BAMBOO AS LIVELIHOOD
COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION TOOL
SUPPLY AND DEMAND
CURRENT MARKET (TRADITIONAL)
1. Top Producers of Bamboo Poles and Split:T’boli,Koronadal,Lake Sebu
Price Range: Delivered to Gen. Santos City
Pole: PhP450.00 to 500.00
Split: ~PhP35.00/bundle (12 pcs/bundle), 6 ft in length
Pick up Price:
Pole: Afus : PhP60.00/pole (45 ft)
Botong: PhP10.00/pole (32 ft)
Bayog & Kawayan: PhP30.00 (35 ft)
Split: ~PhP1.00/pc (12 pcs/bundle) 6 ft in length
2. Top Producers of bamboo for banana props: T’boli ,Tampakan
Price Range of Pole: ~ PhP6.00 (pick up price) ~ PhP12.00 (delivery price)
3. Producers of bahay kubo, furniture and other handicrafts
>>Tampakan, Koronadal, Banga, Tantangan, Tupi, Polomolok
ENGINEERED BAMBOO FOR DESKS AND TABLES
INDUSTRY PLAYERS:
1. NURSERY OPERATORS
2. BAMBOO PLANTATION INVESTORS
3. PLANTATION WORKERS
4. TRUCK HAULERS
5. BAMBOO PROCESSORS
6. CRAFTSMEN
7. BAMBOO MILLING OPERATORS
8. CONSOLIDATORS
Industry Processes
Value Chain in bamboo production was foreseen as viable business. Nursery operators can now rake wealth from bamboo propagation. Serious land owners who understands the potential of bamboo is the conceived buyers of propagules. Land Owners then can have a centennial source of income from bamboo as the supplier of the raw materials needed for bamboo millers, processors and local market. Investors on laminated bamboo panels or planks will exploit the gap of the market of bamboo which is 13 million tons out of 26 million tons of market demand worldwide and still growing.
Engineered bamboo is produced by laminating or gluing two or more layers of crushed, split, or veneered bamboo which can be made into engineered floors, chopping boards, table tops and furniture. This technology is developed by Mariano Marcos State University (MMSU) in Batac, Ilocos Norte.
Skill Sets
Being strategically located at Asian continent, bamboo is basically part of the culture and tradition of Filipino people, thus skills appropriate for bamboo production is not a hindrance. TESDA is now preparing a module for the refinement of the skills training for bamboo production.
Employment
Along the process, from nursery to the laminated bamboo planks finished product, a single industry can mobilize 409 skilled individuals. 14 from nursery operation, 252 for the plantation management and harvesting, 77 people will be engaged in pre-processed and final process, 19 skilled people for the finishing process and finally 47 people for the sales and marketing of the bamboo finished products.
Alongside the industry development, waste products like cuttings, saw dusts, twigs, leaves and other residual materials during the process could be utilized and could provide as a livelihood as well. Bamboo sheaths can be used as platter for finger foods. Bamboo cuttings for charcoal, twigs and leaves for mats, rugs, clothing, mattress and bath towels. Bamboo shoots for processed food and surplus on bamboo shoots could be processed for livestock fodder since it is high in crude protein.
Environmental Impact
Re greening the province as well as the urban and rural areas is the best remedy for the global warming, climate change and greenhouse gases, these three factors are indicators for a global warning. Environmentalist have these concerns; ABC News has obtained a preliminary draft of the upcoming report on climate change, which shows a grim outlook on the effects of global warming and emphasizes that scientists are more convinced than ever that humans are causing it.
"We're hoping that it will convince people, you know, that climate change is real," said Kenneth Denman, co-author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. (source: http://abcnews.go.com-2007)
This report says that we have ten years clock to restore our green planet or we will suffer the irreversible damage. Thus bamboo is well suited for the re greening process for it has a span of only five years. At half a decade, it is already a fully grown mature plant and outranked dipterocarps in carbon sink capacity as well in oxygen emission and carbon dioxide absorption.
Another research proves that the use of bamboo as an ingredient in biofuel is a topic that comes up frequently in renewable energy talks. Can bamboo really be a source of renewable energy? The process of converting a biomass to a liquid energy source can be fairly difficult in the case of the bamboo plant. The plant is hardy and not easy to harvest, but produces a high level of biomass. Researchers are looking for a method of harnessing the energy of bamboo and there have been several proposed methods of doing so.
Fischer-Tropsch Process for Bamboo Bio Diesel
The Fischer-Tropsch is a multi step process of converting biomass to biofuel. In a nutshell, this process a catalyzed chemical reaction that takes a gas mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, and converts it into liquid hydrocarbons. This reaction will take place in temperatures between 150-200 degrees Celsius. The resulting hydrocarbons are the basis of fuels used into today's world, and are a great alternative to petroleum. Although this process is successfully creating biodiesel today... The big question remains as to whether or not bamboo can be a useful basis in this process. It is rich in carbon, but it could be a long time before it can be used effectively in this process. There exists very little practical experimentation with bamboo in the Fischer-Tropsch process, but the idea has been put forth.
The Future of Bamboo in Biofuels
If bamboo could be efficiently converted into fuel, the rise of bamboo as a non-food crop could grow in the United States. Deforested areas could be colonized by bamboo four times faster than most native plants. Private property owners would also have more incentive to grow bamboo to become energy self sufficient. There is already an abundance of bamboo throughout Asia, and its popularity is growing rapidly in the United States. If a legitimate process of converting its mass into liquid fuel were developed, one would assume that its popularity would only grow larger. This would allow people to produce rapidly growing fuel sources, and discontinue the use of petrol based fuels. The future is exciting for bamboo bio-fuel and we will post future updates as we receive them.
Dr. Foronda is endorsing bamboo for clean bio oil and bio coal, a best replacement for coal mining to fire up power plants in our looming power shortage, he says that 1,000 hectares of bamboo plantation could supply a daily output of 70-75 tons per day. Invest in Bamboo Bio-oil Production and make money!Reduce dependence on fossil fuels, reduce GHG emissions, protect the environment and create jobs, he added.
We will be moving on from vicious cycle to virtuous cycle, plant bamboo and no need to replant for another 100 years.
Outlook
The allure of the Asian aesthetic, particularly in using bamboo materials to endow products an essence of simplicity, has created a continuously growing market in the recent years. Environment conscious buyers have considered the durability and renewability of the plant being a natural and eco-friendly alternative to more traditional wood choices. With a tensile strength of 28,000 per square inch versus 23,000 per square inch for steel, and a weight-to-strength ratio better than graphite, bamboo is the strongest growing woody plant on Earth making it a viable replacement for wood.
World trade on bamboo and bamboo products was estimated at $12 billion in 2002 and was growing at two billion US dollars ($2B) yearly (Annex 1). Bamboo flooring enjoys a very good demand especially in environment-conscious Europe where people are willing to pay more than $100 per square meter of bamboo flooring compared to only about $25 per square meter for a floor made of oak. (DTI12-nerbac).
Through the Philippine International Eco-Show, we hope to raise awareness and inspire change in the way people treat their environment… We are looking for partners for this project who share the same vision of a greener world,” CITEM Deputy Executive Director and the Eco-Show’s Program Director Maria Thelma Dumpit-Murillo said.
PBFI President Edgardo Manda noted that “bamboo, which grows to maturity in just four to five years and grows well in a tropical climate, is best for reforestation.”
“Converting large areas of grassland into bamboo forests will increase farmers’ incomes and expand their work opportunities,” said Manda.
China has nurtured over 6 million hectares of bamboo forests, which sustain a $2 billion-plus annual export industry that makes food, medicine, beverages, tiles, textile, furniture, and handicraft, among other things, of bamboo.
We are giving priority to using bamboo in reforestation for various reasons. One is the fact that some bamboos still stand in many areas needing reforestation. Bamboo can provide forest cover while giving significant economic benefits. China’s bamboo industry is worth billions of dollars.
Business leader Wash Sycip, the first donor for our Aeta Village in Tarlac, has suggested that I look at bamboo for our reforestation project in the village. Recently, with the help of the Philippine Bamboo Foundation headed by Ed Manda and the International Network on Bamboo and Rattan in Beijing, I got to see China’s bamboo industry in the province of Zheijang.
What I saw impressed me, as well as other Filipinos who visited China’s bamboo industry. Mountains that used to be denuded are now covered with beautiful green bamboo. Farmers live in nice houses. Companies are expanding their factories to process bamboo for food, textile, beauty and wellness, furniture and fixtures, and construction of buildings. Part of their production output is exported to the US and other developed countries that have high demand for bamboo products”.
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