BAMBOO CRAFT ITEMS:

The various craft items are made such as decorative and usable objects out of bamboo. Bamboo crafts have no definite limitations, as it varies very extensively as per the designs. The craft items are produced as per the demand of the consumers and the market. The products are very unique and attractive. These products are made even for the foreign export because the products are not delicate and they very in different model and sizes for the convenience of the exporters.

Decorative Crafts:
* Flower Vases
* Frames
* Showpieces
* Models of Traditional houses
* Model of Temples

Usable Objects:
* Trays
* Baskets
* Lamp stand
* Carpets
* Stools
* Racks
* Dustbin

COSTING

The ready made crafts are seemed very skilled fully made. The cost of them varies according to the quality of craft and input. The cost also differs of size and model. The crafts are produced in various items the sizes. The following table may clear the certain extend of cost confusion.

CONSUMER

The crafts are made very skillfully which look very beautiful and natural so that whoever else feels to use them as in the modern days every one is fed up with the use of steel and plastic house wares. The usable crafts are seemed very handy. The consumers are two type; Traditional users and the hobbyist.

Many people use bamboo craft as a hobby, decorative and gift purpose and building houses as well as house wares etc. Though, the use of bamboo craft is not new for the consumers but they have no habit of using new model of articles. The consumers must be given the clears ideas of crafts.

BAMBOO

Scientific classification. Poaceae (formerly Gramineae). Bamboo is the common name for about 45 genera of (about 480 species) a perennial treelike plant, which scientifically falls in the grass family. It grows most abundantly in southeastern Asia in tropical and subtropical areas, from sea level to snow capped mountain peaks, with a few species reaching into temperate areas, with some species in the Americas and Africa and none in Australia. The plants range from stiff reeds about 1 m (about 3 ft) tall to giants reaching 50 m (164 ft) in height and 30 cm (12 in) in diameter near the base. Most bamboos are erect, but some are viny, producing impenetrable thickets in some areas. Where, it has hundreds of practical applications, such as in construction and decoration and as paper or food. The plant's stems, called culms, consist of hollow sections called internodes, which are interrupted by regularly spaced nodes, giving bamboo its jointed appearance.

Bamboos are most widely used by humans. In the tropical regions they are used for constructing houses, rafts, bridges, and scaffolding. Split and flattened culms can be used as flooring and interwoven to make baskets, mats, hats, fish traps, and other articles; culms of large species may be used as containers for liquids. Paper is made from bamboo pulp, and fishing rods, water pipes, musical instruments, and chopsticks from other parts. Many bamboos are planted as ornamentals, and young shoots are eaten as a vegetable. The grain is also a food. Domestic animals are fed on bamboo plants. The bamboo experts express that the bamboo plants play great role in the modern world beating off the extensive use of steels and plastic products. It will be the third world wide natural building resources resource on the earth.