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sequester carbon, can be an effective, cheaper, and income generating option to face the challenge of climate change and to fulfill the demand of livelihood for the forest dependent people. Out of few big bamboo species, which are able to grow at lower temperature, Dendrocalamus asper is one of the economically viable and socially useful species for cultivation in the mid hills of Himalayan region. No reports on biomass produced by D. asper are available from the mid hill region of India. The Present study was conducted to estimate the above ground biomass produced in D. asper plantation at two aspects (hill slope and river side) in the mid hills of Uttarakhand state of India. Materials and Methods The study was conducted during 2006-2008 at Agriculture Research Station, Majhera and Jarmila, Garampani, Nainital, Uttarakhand, India. Altitude, latitude and longitude of the study site are 1000 m (a.s.l.), 29º30.137’, 79º28.784’, respectively with two aspects i.e. top of hill and side of river bank. Maximum temperature, minimum temperature and maximum relative humidity were recorded 32.1ºC in the month of June, 4.83ºC in the month of January and 97.67 per cent in the month of August, respectively on the basis of mean of three years data. Annual rainfall of this site was 554.30 mm (Fig 1). Methods as given here pertain to data collection procedure and analysis for biomass using acceptable linear equations for the encountered species in this study. Plants of D. asper were produced through micropropagation (Agarwal et al. 2008) and planted at ARS, Majhera at the top of the hill and at Jarmila by the side of the river bank of Kosi (spacing 5m) in the year 2006 (Fig 2). Sampling was done during December 2008 by selecting five plants from each site. Five poles of various diameter and height from each plant were harvested. Fresh weight of each pole with branch & leaves was taken and dry weight was recorded by drying at 70ºC for 72 hrs in an oven after harvesting. On the basis of fresh & dry weight linear regression equation was developed (Singh et al. 2009) to estimate the above ground biomass of D. asper. For the estimation of soil carbon, sampling was done according to Jackson (1973) at 0.5m and 1.0 m radial distance from the centre of the plant. Soil sampling for control was done before the bamboo plantation. Estimation of organic carbon was done by Soil testing laboratory (Uttarakhand Tea Development Board), Bhowali, Nainital (UK) India. Results & Discussion Model for the prediction of above ground biomass in D. asper was developed. With the help of this model, estimation of above ground biomass produced by D. asper at two aspects in the mid Himalayan region was done. The results indicated change in the biomass on the basis of fresh and dry weight. For fresh weight, height of the pole, girth to height at 1.0 m and 1.5 m affected the biomass by 99.8 per cent whereas in dry weight it was 97.6 per cent (Table 1). VIII World Bamboo Congress Proceedings Vol 4-91
Table 1: Linear relationship between above ground biomass of bamboo plant components (y Kg pole -1 ) and height (x1, m), girth to height at 1m (x2, m) & girth to height at 1.5m (x3, m). S.N. Biomass (Kg plant -1 ) Intercept (a) Slope (b1) Slope (b2) Slope (b3) 1 Fresh weight -1.30 0.463 -3.74 30.2 0.998 2 Dry Weight -0.809 0.393 -6.68 18.43 0.976 Above ground biomass produced by D. asper at two aspects varied. Biomass produced in two years after the plantation was 17 per cent higher at the hill top as compared to river bank on the fresh weight basis. Average biomass produced was 542.24 kg ha -1 and 450.06 kg ha -1 at ARS Majhera and Jarmila, respectively. Dry weight was recorded approximately 63 per cent less than the fresh weight (Table 2). Average biomass on the basis of dry weight was 208.43 kg ha -1 at ARS Majhera which was 19.8 per cent higher than Jarmila (166.99 kg ha -1 ). Table 2: Above ground biomass produced by D. asper at two aspects Average Biomass (Kg ha -1 S.N. Treatments )* ARS, Majhera Jarmila (Hill Top) (River bank) 1 Fresh weight 542.24 450.06 2 Dry weight 208.43 166.99 * On the basis of one pole/plant Soil carbon concentration in both the aspects was estimated up to 20 cm depth. Soil carbon of the hill top was found higher than the soil carbon of river bank. Negative correlation was found between the per cent soil carbon and radial distance from the centre of the plant (Table 3). Per cent soil carbon increased by 64-70 at ARS Majhera and 32-60 at Jarmila due to litter deposition (leaf fall) as compared to control. Table 3: Soil carbon due to plantation of D. asper S.N. Radial distance from centre of Per cent Organic carbon plant ARS, Majhera Jarmila (Hill Top) (River bank) 1 0.5 m 2.57 0.97 2 1.0 m 2.15 0.58 3 Control 0.78 0.39 There are few studies on biomass production by D. asper. Mathematical regression models are commonly practiced in determining the biomass of forest all over the world because it does not damage the growth of the VIII World Bamboo Congress Proceedings Vol 4-92 R 2
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