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The Kerala Forest Research Institute (KFRI) has singed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Odisha Bamboo Development Agency (OBDA).
Kannan C.S. Warrier, Director, KFRI, said present connected Thursday (November 27, 2025) that the MoU marks the opening of a semipermanent concern built connected technological collaboration, cognition sharing, and a shared imaginativeness for transforming the bamboo sector.
“Odisha has immense earthy imaginable and the KFRI brings decades of specialised probe and method expertise. Together, we tin make an interaction acold greater than what immoderate instauration could execute alone,” helium said.
Under the MoU, the archetypal country of practice is technological enactment for taxon selection, propagation, and prime planting worldly production. The KFRI volition enactment with the OBDA to present improved nursery practices, micropropagation techniques, and protocols for high-value bamboo taxon suited to Odisha’s divers landscapes.
Boosting livelihoods
Secondly, the MoU focusses connected capableness gathering and accomplishment development. The KFRI volition behaviour grooming programmes for artisans, self-help groups, tribal communities, and method unit connected bamboo treatment, trade and furnishings production, merchandise design, and modern processing methods. The extremity is simple: to fortify livelihoods by strengthening skills.
Third, the KFRI volition widen exertion transportation to the OBDA. This includes bamboo preservation systems, low-cost attraction technology, improved tools, and merchandise prototypes developed done research. These technologies volition assistance Odisha’s MSMEs and community-level enterprises amended quality, durability, and marketplace competitiveness, the KFRI manager explained.
The MoU was exchanged betwixt Dr. Warrier and V. Karthik, State Mission Director, OBDA, successful the beingness of Odisha Minister for Environment Forest and Climate Change Ganesh Ram Singh Khuntia during a nationalist league connected bamboo and medicinal plants astatine Bhubaneswar recently.
