{"id":116473,"date":"2021-07-06T07:56:48","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T02:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=116473"},"modified":"2021-07-06T16:48:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T11:18:50","slug":"kvics-project-bold-to-boost-tribals-income-and-bamboo-based-economy-in-rajasthan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/kvics-project-bold-to-boost-tribals-income-and-bamboo-based-economy-in-rajasthan\/","title":{"rendered":"KVIC\u2019s Project BOLD to Boost Tribals\u2019 Income and Bamboo-based Economy in Rajasthan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1732621\"><strong>PIB<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Khadi and Village Industries Commission(KVIC) has launched a project named Bamboo Oasis on Lands in Drought(BOLD) in Udaipur, Rajasthan.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>About Project BOLD:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Project BOLD <\/strong>seeks to create bamboo-based green patches in arid and semi-arid land zones of the country. It aims at reducing land degradation and preventing desertification in the country.<\/li>\n<li><strong>As part of the project,<\/strong> 5000 saplings of bamboo species \u2013 Bambusa Tulda and Bambusa Polymorpha specially brought from Assam \u2013 have been planted over 16 acres of vacant arid Gram Panchayat land in Rajasthan.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Further, <\/strong>the KVIC is set to replicate the Project at Village Dholera in Ahmedabad district in Gujarat and Leh-Ladakh region.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Significance of the Project:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Firstly<\/strong>, the Project has created a world record of planting the highest number of bamboo saplings on a single day at one location.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Secondly<\/strong>, the Project will help in reducing the land degradation percentage of the country.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thirdly<\/strong>, the project will give a boost to self-employment in the region.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Why was Bamboo chosen for the Project? <\/strong>KVIC has chosen bamboo for developing green patches because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Bamboos <\/strong>grow very fast and in about three years&#8217; time and could be harvested.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bamboos <\/strong>are also known for conserving water and reducing evaporation of water from the land surface, which is an important feature in arid and drought-prone regions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: PIB What is the News? Khadi and Village Industries Commission(KVIC) has launched a project named Bamboo Oasis on Lands in Drought(BOLD) in Udaipur, Rajasthan. About Project BOLD: Project BOLD seeks to create bamboo-based green patches in arid and semi-arid land zones of the country. It aims at reducing land degradation and preventing desertification in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/kvics-project-bold-to-boost-tribals-income-and-bamboo-based-economy-in-rajasthan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">KVIC\u2019s Project BOLD to Boost Tribals\u2019 Income and Bamboo-based Economy in Rajasthan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,956,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-schemes-and-programs","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704840280},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}