World Bamboo Day is celebrated every year on 18 September. This day is celebrated every year to raise awareness about the benefits of bamboo and promote its use in everyday products. Bamboo is mainly used for various purposes in East and Southeast Asia. Bamboo is a tall, tree-like grass of the Poaceae family. It includes more than 115 genera and 1,400 species. The theme of the 12th edition of World Bamboo Day in the year 2021 was – ‘#Bamboo Plant’. The World Bamboo Organization is headquartered in Belgium, which was established in 2005.
World Bamboo Day was first formally held on 18 September 2009 in Bangkok. The World Bamboo Organization announced the celebration of World Bamboo Day for the first time on 18 September 2009 in Bangkok. The World Bamboo Organization announced this in the 8th World Bamboo Congress. Since then, every year 18 September is celebrated as World Bamboo Day all over the world. Its purpose is to increase its awareness and protect natural resources. On this day, people are encouraged to cultivate it, so that it can be used extensively and natural balance can be established. Every year World Bamboo Day is celebrated with a theme.
The idea behind celebrating this day is to expand the potential of bamboo. Apart from this, the purpose is to promote new cultivation of bamboo for new industries in areas around the world and to promote traditional uses at the local level for community economic development etc. On the day of World Bamboo Day, people are asked to promote bamboo cultivation. The best thing about bamboo is that they rarely need to be replanted. It is one of the fastest growing grass plants. Bamboo has many uses, including furniture, food, biofuel, clothing and more. Therefore, bamboo cultivation is very important to maintain the requirements. Bamboo is used most mainly in East and Southeast Asia.[1]
Every year World Bamboo Day is celebrated with a theme. As a responsible citizen, it is our duty to conserve natural resources. Especially when it is used most for human well-being. The World Bamboo Organization (WBO) has always emphasized the importance of planting bamboo. The theme of World Bamboo Day, 2021 is – ‘#PlantBamboo’.
Bamboo is one of the most precious treasures of nature and it has many uses in our lives. Earlier it was used mostly in making mud houses in villages. Even today, when thatched roofs are put up at some places, it is used in that too. Urban life is also not untouched by it. It is used in wooden furniture in urban homes. Apart from this, it is used in children’s toys, flutes, hand carts, sticks of the elderly, policemen’s batons, ladders used in homes, cots in the house, wedding mandap and bride’s palanquin and in many other ways it is connected to our lives.
It is also common to pluck mangoes from a tall bamboo pole. It is associated with us in some way or the other throughout our lives, but it remains with us even at the end of our lives. In many places, clothes are also made from it. The most surprising thing is that in Northeast India and the tribal areas, delicious and tasty food is also prepared from it.
