An Overall Review on Bamboo Shoot and its Role in Food Security

Author: Bhavana A.*, Akshay R. Patil, Roopa B. Patil and Deepak

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Abstract

The major burden in uplifting the objective of global food security with this growing population is an indicator to raise the crops production. Presently, very few food crops feed the giant majority of world’s population. The major challenge is to feed the growing population by food products with good source of nutrients for nourishment of humans and where it could reach all classes of the society. To liberate the world from this widespread hunger and malnutrition, there is requirement to discover a novel food crops which play a vital role in supplementing the existing food crops for both, nutritional and health security. The classic and resourceful plant, bamboo, is obscurely associated with hominids since from decades. It is one of the fastest growing plants and is assessed to cover 8.96 million ha of the total 63.3 million ha forest area of India. The North-East India anchorages around 43 per cent of the entire bamboo wealth in India. The utilization of immature shoots o

Keywords

Bamboo shoot, forest area, food security and global hunger.

Conclusion

Bamboo, the most versatile renewable resource, coincidently has utmost natural abundance in the areas which are most horribly affected from hunger and undernourishment. The products made were very good in taste as well as from the nutritional point of view. Bamboo shoots are available for a limited period; more number of different edible products can be standardized and formulated in future. Value addition of bamboo shoot and in food market having bamboo component increases their marketability potential of these kinds of novel products the growing global population in near future.

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Bhavana A., Patil, A.R., Patil, R.B. and Deepak (2021). An Overall Review on Bamboo Shoot and its Role in Food Security. Biological Forum – An International Journal, 13(3a): 738-742.