Design and Fabrication of Bamboo Mat Weaving Machine

Abstract

Bamboo are ideal resources for development that integrates poverty reduction and environmental sustainability bamboo mat, a plywood-like wooden board made from layers of woven bamboo strips that have been pressed together, has enormous income generating potential for the rural poor, who make up the vast majority of weavers. The following technology describes how to produce bamboo mat. The bamboo mat technology is a commercially and socially effective means of processing bamboo into quality end products for the construction, packaging and transport sectors. Its development attributes imply considerable scope for income and welfare improvement for rural poor people. In addition, it enables governments and woodbased industries to cope with the problem of wood shortages and to reduce environmental degradation due to overharvesting of timber trees. If properly organised and guided by private enterprises, state agencies and/or NGOs, the technology as well as its backward and forward linkages can increase the income and welfare of many people in a sustainable manner.