Category: AGRICULTURE

How to Produce Kawayan Charcoal Briquettes?

How to Produce Kawayan Charcoal Briquettes?

To fully utilize the bamboo, another technology was generated that could help the standowners 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 marketing kawayan charcoal briquettes are:

  1. Collecting and Preparing the Raw Materials Continue reading “How to Produce Kawayan Charcoal Briquettes?”

What is the PoPeYE Technology ?

What is the PoPeYE Technology and How is it Done?

Large areas of bamboo plantations have to be established to supply the increasing demand for poles. The most ideal source of raw materials for the various uses is commercial bamboo plantations but there is not enough to supply the demand of various industries. The natural stands are ready source materials if given proper management. They require only a short time and less investment than newly planted plantation before returning profits.

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Kawayan Technology part 3

How to Maintain Bamboo Stands?

  • Clean the bamboo clumps to facilitate growth development of new shoots and the production of good quality poles. Two ways of cleaning bamboo clumps.
  • Horse-shoe pattern – clean the clumps in such a way that the uncut culms will form a horse-shoe pattern.
  • Cross pattern – remove all the culms within the cross pattern.
  • Remove the spiny branches.
  • If rats abound in the area, apply rodenticides at the base of the clumps. Distribute the bait around the plantation.
  • Remove dry leaves and branches or anything that easily burns around the plantation to prevent fire Continue reading “Kawayan Technology part 3”

Kawayan Technology part 2

How to Prepare the Misting Bed?

  1. A misting bed is a ground bed where cuttings are being rooted. Make a misting bed under the trees and near a water source. It can either be square or rectangular depending on the quantity of cuttings to be propagated. If large quantity of planting materials is to be propagated, construct a 3 m x 5m misting bed.
  2. Use hollow blocks as borders and then fill the chamber with sand until the brim.

What are the Steps in Preparing Planting Materials?

  1. Select planting materials only from healthy clumps. Select 1-to-2 year old culms. The nodes must have well developed buds from the base to the top.
  2. Cut the selected culms from the clump. Do not remove the buds in the nodes.
  3. Cut the culms into one-node sections. Cut at 2-3 in below the node and 4-5 in above the node.
  4. Set the cuttings in the misting bed in slanting position. Expose the branch stub above the bed. This position enhances the emergence of shoots.
  5. Keep the misting bed moist to enhance the emergence of shoots and roots. Water the cutting by misting for 2 hours in the morning and 2 hours in the afternoon.
  6. A sprinkler can be used in the absence of mist sprayer. Water the cuttings twice in the morning and in the afternoon.
  7. After 15-25 days, transplant the rooted cuttings into 7 in x 7 in x 11 in plastic bag.
  8. Mix ordinary garden soil and sand at 1:1 ratio. Fill half of the plastic bag with the mixture and then place the rooted cuttings. Fill the remaining half of the plastic bag with soil mixture.
  9. Place the seedlings under the trees. In the absence of trees, provide a shade for the seedlings.
  10. After two months, transfer the seedlings into the open to harden the newly developed shoots. The seedlings can be transplanted into the field after 6-12 months.
  11. Water the seedlings and spray fungicide to protect and control the spread of disease.
  12. Fertilize each seedling with 20 g of 14-14-14 NPK.
  13. Cut all roots protruding from the plastic bag to prevent them from growing into the ground.
  14. Remove weeds that compete with the development of seedlings. Continue reading “Kawayan Technology part 2”