Dear Johnek

I applaud your efforts!

Best regards,
Gib Cooper
Executive Director BOTA
http://bamboooftheamericas.org



On Nov 23, 2008, at 8:56 PM, Johnek Henry wrote:

> Dear Rogelio and others,
>
> Must thanks all of you who unselfishly contribute regulalry to this
> forum.
>
> I, we at REDEEMS (www.redeems.my) envisage to industrialised bamboo
> in Sarawak, Malaysia. With large land area available, mitigating
> areas of overlogged areas, environmental, soil and water resource
> degradation. The drive is towards polyculture agroforestry with
> bamboo as pioneer and complementary species with many other NTFP
> species, The resource production i.e planting. will be mainly
> community based towards improving the livelihood and socioeconomy
> of the rural, securing land tenureships, forest and forest
> services management.
>
> The complexicity of production, process and operation management
> and industrialisation
> make it necessary to mobilise government support, which we are
> gaining slowly. We have formed taskforce team towards forming an
> advisory and planning committee which will later form the national
> bamboo development authority Bamboo industry in Malaysia is
> minimal inspite of the number of research and enthusiast. We look
> forward to have apportunities to discuss with the many bamboo
> people in this forum whom I may contact personally.
>
> We intend to commercialise Dendrocalamus especially giganteus and
> asper, Gigantochloa levis, atter, apus, scortecninii, Bambusa
> vulgaris, heterostachya, Schizostachyum latifolium, brachyladum
> and others for the furnitures, matboard, boards and veneers,crafts
> and other downstream industry. Potential investers for specific
> products on bamboo are most welcome and also include the NTFP. We
> wish to look into commercialising NTFP complimentary to bamboo such
> as medicinal herbs, fragrants, and mushrooms. Agar wood,
> Vanilla,and auricularia mushroom, etc.
>
> Reagrds to all of you.
>
> Johnek Henry.
>
> --- On Fri, 21/11/08, ROGELIO BIBAL <rbibal2020@...> wrote:
>
> From: ROGELIO BIBAL <rbibal2020@...>
> Subject: Re: [bamboo-plantations] Dendrocalamus-marketing
> To: bamboo-plantations@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, 21 November, 2008, 4:13 PM
>
> Dear Mr. Nawaz,
>
> I can feel and understand your situation after spending 20 years
> and eventually have 500,000 bamboo poles. ready to be disposed and
> dreaming to be a sustainable NTFP resource. To me , the number of
> bamboo poles you have is not so alarming, because, in my country
> the Philippines, we have a government policy that we have an Annual
> Allowable Cut (AAC) . In one province near to my hometown, the
> province is only allowed to cut 10 million bamboo poles; 41%
> Schizoztachyum lumampao( Buho) and the remaining percentage is
> distributed to our other four species as follows: S. fenixii
> (Puser) S. diffusum ( Bikal) , B.blumeana (Tinik) and D.merrilianus
> (Bayog) and other species of bamboo with commercial value. I
> believe also, that in your mind and the professional advises of the
> people whom you trust, you have listed important products of bamboo
> with market driven demand and with commercial value. However, we
> all know that to fully utilize bamboo has complexity in
> its operation and production of products like China has been doing
> for more than two decades now. Aside form that , it needs
> relatively big capital investments as we have seen in China which
> they can do because of the government policies they have on bamboo
> and the full support of their national government and other leading
> institutions that cater to the development of their bamboo sector.
> Moreover, their multi-lateral type of utilizing bamboo is so
> efficient that tends to reduce the production cost ad the price of
> their products in the global and local markets. In reality, we can
> not compete in the magnitude of their production and their existing
> bamboo plantations. But, there are also products of the Chinese
> people on bamboo with low investments like the production of
> toothpicks and bamboo sticks(skewers) . Since, at this time you
> don't have the multi-lateral type of system in your country, same
> as we are in my country, expect that during the
> production period of these products,. you will have more than 40%
> of waste materials. But these wastes materials can be used in the
> production of charcoal , as what Mr. Lakshamana had said and others
> will be used as pulp for paper making and as a source of energy to
> treat your bamboo poles and other main bamboo products (toothpicks
> and bamboo skewers)
>
> As a bamboo sculptor and bamboo product designer, you can sell it
> as bamboo pole which will be used as an interior decors
> ( functional and non- functional) of the middle class and upper
> class of the society locally and internationally. I can design and
> produce a prototype for you. Since, bamboo is being recognized and
> accepted in the developed and developing countries, specially the
> affluent ones with beautiful houses, condominiums and offices/
> buildings ( the concept of "not a poor man's timber").
>
> The design of the bamboo poles as a piece of arts/crafts will not
> be as bamboo pole per se, but, we will add a material component
> that the overall design will fit in any form of houses of the rich
> and famous- include also the middle class as I have said.
>
> Another product I can suggest, as your corporate social
> responsibility (CRS) is to produce school desk for school children
> in rural and urban areas of your country. I can provide you also a
> design for that. But expect that this kind of product will entail
> machineries and equipments to produce including skilled people.
>
> All for now, feel free to communicate. God Bless!
>
> Yours,
>
> Rogelio N. Bibal
> Visual Artist
> International Adviser; Pacific Bamboo Resources
> Seattle, Washington, USA
> INBAR Alumni (Phil)
> Member; Bamboo NetworK of the Philippines ( BambooPhil)
>
> ____________ _________ _________ __
> From: a.c. lakshmana <aclakshmana@ yahoo.com>
> To: bamboo-plantations@ yahoogroups. com
> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 4:03:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [bamboo-plantations ] Dendrocalamus- marketing
>
> Please go through my e-mail. Try to study the market based on the
> demand and market price you can think of converting your raw material.
> a.c.lakshmana
>
> A.C.Lakshmana, I.F.S, (Retd)
> Former Secratary to Govt. of Karnataka,
> House No 1, 7th main, 1 st cross
> Gokulam IIIrd stage
> Mysore 570 020
> India
> Cell : (+91) 98453 22422
>
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