ESG & UN SDG

Bamboo plantation does not require inorganic manure. Thus the inter-cropped grains and vegetables will not have the traces of harmful inorganic substances – a step towards organic farming.

A mature bamboo plantation doesn’t require water and could sustain purely as rain-fed. Therefore bamboo planters will have more water for their traditional crop grown on other farm lands resulting in better productivity.

Bamboo-based Engineered Board Manufacturing Units will employ 3,000+ labour and will result in the DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW SECTOR in India.

In addition there will be 7,000 – 14,000 direct employment in the Village Units.

Artison is setting the World’s First Bamboo-based Engineered Board manufacturing industry. This is disruptive innovation in a very-large scale. Nobody in the engineered board sector, till date, has tried implementing such a brilliant idea.

Artison believes that the model will eventually become the norm for all engineered board manufacturers resulting in development of bamboo  plantation across India and across the world.

Bamboo is a long-term crop. It is to be cultivated once, maintained for initial few years and to be harvested annually for decades (40+ years). So no recurring cost of cultivation and agri-implements.

Bamboo could be cultivated almost all types of land and could convert barren, fallow land into fertile one. Saline water area where no traditional crop could be cultivated, could also be used for bamboo cultivation.

Mature bamboo can withstand draught, heavy-rain and flood condition without any problem. Thus bamboo-plantation ensures almost risk-free return for the bamboo farmers and the communities.

Artison believes in responsible sourcing of raw material. Hence all our bamboo crop will be FSG (Forest Stewardship Council) certified. This is to ensure that all the sourced RM is cultivated as cash crop thus preventing any attempt by middlemen to source and supply RM from forests lands.

Artison follows a “Cyclic Harvest Model” whereby only 25% matured bamboo from a bushel is harvested. Therefore, unlike the harvest of traditional timber-giving trees, the bamboo-plantation generates “Permanent Green” but does not destroys it.

As per our estimate, the 4 years’ mature bamboo-plantation captures 124 MT/acre Carbon. This figure increases to 220 MT/acre and 312 MT/acre respectively when the bamboo-plantation is 6 years’ and 8 years’ old.

For further details please see Bamboo Plantation – Environmental Benefits.

Increased income per acre from the proceeds of the bamboo crop will help in reducing poverty in the rural level.

Artison will be using Green Energy as far as possible for the Bamboo-based Engineered Board Manufacturing unit. The energy will come from burning agro-waste in the Energy Unit and through a combination of Solar and Wind power units. The agro-waste will be sourced from the farmers. Thus the farmers, instead of burning them on the farm lands and causing air-pollution, will generate revenue from them.

Increased income level of the marginal bamboo farmers will create disposable income at the village level resulting in reduced inequalities.

Bamboo helps soil to hold moisture through its rhizome thus supporting life for the very basic strata of our eco-system.

We are in the process of forming partnership with the state governments so that bamboo could be cultivated in waste revenue and degraded forest land. It will result in creation of permanent bamboo forests and a sustainable stream of revenue for the government and the poor village people/tribal who would maintain those bamboo plantation.

Artison is also setting up skill development centers with a buy back guarantee that can provide livelihood support the poor people at the rural level.

This way the benefits of the model could reach a wide number of people and the Environmental, Social and Economic (ESE) goals of the model could be fulfilled.