jrbaja
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Baja Bamboo
If anyone is interested in becoming involved with Baja Bamboo and the future Bamboo Parks after reading this mornings paper, give me a shout
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Bruce R Leech
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We are surrounded by Baja bamboo here in Mulege, we are involved on a daily bases. What news paper are you talking about.
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jrbaja
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In reality Bruce
In Mulege you are surrounded by Carrizo, a whole different thing. They do work well together though!
San Diego Union Tribune although I suspect that the article was in many others.
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Bruce R Leech
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Mexico eyes world?s bamboo market
HUATUSCO, Mexico: It can be used to build homes, make deodorant, clothes and paper. Some industries fuel ovens with it. The Aztecs made flutes out of
it.
China may be the first place that springs to mind when we think of bamboo, but it has long grown wild in Mexico. Now, a handful of Mexican producers
are hoping to turn it into a driver of local industry able to one day challenge the Asian giant in export markets from Europe to the United States.
A pipe dream? It may be, but a small group of growers in Mexico are already talking about turning the tables on China and selling bamboo into its most
lucrative markets. Analysts value the global bamboo market at about $10 billion, with China claiming about half, and they see it growing to $20
billion by 2015, led by US demand for paper.
Mexican bamboo pioneers hope the country could take a piece of that pie, winning back some ground on Chinese manufacturing imports into Mexico and key
export market the United States.
Mexico, which sends 90 percent of its exports to its northern neighbour, has been losing US market share to China in key sectors like textiles,
televisions, automobiles and computer parts.
Fight back: Bamboo is part of the fight back. ?In two or three years we could be ready, we could have an industry,? Rafael Guillaumin said in
Huatusco, deep in the lush hills of Mexico?s Veracruz state. He started planting bamboo on his 100-year-old coffee plantations five years ago amid a
global coffee crisis.
Guillaumin has formed a private group to promote the bamboo industry by teaching people how to grow it, process it and profit from it. The group,
Bambuver, receives government funds and coordinates activities with private organizations and universities. It has already helped build low-income
bamboo housing in Veracruz state at about one-third the cost of conventional construction.
Bambuver is also talking with private industry in Mexico about potential, future uses for bamboo in construction, as a fuel and as the raw material
for paper production.
One of Mexico?s largest paper-products companies is looking at the possibility of making paper from bamboo or using it for fuel in its plants,
Guillaumin said.
There is also talk of major reforestation projects. Europeans like the idea of Mexican bamboo because it would be cheaper than the Chinese variety.
?It?s a lot cheaper and less time-consuming to transport,? said Rafael Bejarano, an expert in bamboo production originally from Costa Rica, which also
has a bamboo industry. ?Reuters
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jrbaja
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Yep
that is part of it.
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Mexray
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Got Bamboo....
My next-door neighbor up here in Northern Calif has 5 acres, and he's an admitted 'Bamboo' nut...he and his wife have lived here forever, and as a
hobby he collected all kinds of bamboo. I think he said he has over 80-100 varieties! He has some of the BIG stuff - almost 3 inches in dia that are
mighty tall! He has some paths cleared through em' so you can walk into his forest - a constant battle, as you know, bamboo can grow like the wind!
These days, he invites some friends in during the shoot-growing season to collect the tender shoots, and keep the grove in check.
Those shoots try to get over into our yard, but he tills the soil with his plow several times a year to cut them back!
I traveled to Northern Sumatra (Indonesia) in the 70's and it was amazing to see those multi-story, bamboo scaffolds tied together during construction
of buildings in the city of Medan! They also used another fast-growing type of plant (maybe a variety of bamboo) to 'grow' fences...They would cut
the stalks, plant em' a few inches apart and then weave the branches together as they grew...making them pig-tight fences...the casa's there were
built on stilts, 8-10 feet above ground. Pigs were then allowed to roam around the yard to keep all sorts of bad creatures (really bad snakes,
etc.)away from one's family...
Bamboo, not just for fly rods anymore...
According to my clock...anytime is \'BAJA TIME\' & as Jimmy Buffett says,
\"It doesn\'t use numbers or moving hands It always just says now...\"
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jrbaja
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Mexray
Tell your neighbors to put a square form around some of the shoots when they come up.
Ever seen square bamboo?
If you form it when it's young, it retains whatever shape you make it.
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Can you form it to fit in those squre post holes in the pick-up trup bed sides?
I saw your bamboo truck canopy photo and if you could prefit a kit, you might have a product for market!
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