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Indonesia needs an integrated strategy to solve the problems of degraded land and weak landscape management while at the same time improving community livelihoods, alleviating poverty, creating employment and rural development, which are the main priorities of government programs. Bamboo, an excellent pioneer plant, is one of the solutions for rehabilitating and restoring ecological functions in degraded landscapes, with accompanying economic benefits.
However, bamboo has a mortality rate of up to 90% in extreme environments on degraded land. To counter this, we have developed a simple nursery process that extends the seedling incubation stage, called ‘cocoon breeding system’ or ‘cocoon nursery’. Cocoon nurseries are priorities for catalyzing the Thousand Bamboo Villages program in Indonesia. A nursery is bamboo resource capital that can be used by a community to create a ‘bamboo village’ with community-based industries. To support this, collaboration is needed with government, non-governmental organizations, and the larger-scale private sector. |
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