A report by the National Bamboo Mission (NBM) committee has highlighted significant issues with tissue culture bamboo plants supplied by private firms, including Growmore Biotech (Hosur, Tamil Nadu), Kala Biotech Pvt Ltd (Pune), and IshVed Biotech Ltd (Pune). The committee found that many of these Bambusa balcooa (Beema bamboo) saplings flowered prematurely and died, leading to substantial losses for farmers. Specifically, approximately 40% of the affected farmers had purchased plantlets from Growmore Biotech, while 20% each had sourced from Kala Biotech and IshVed Biotech. The report suggested that practices adopted in tissue culture laboratories might have contributed to this issue and advised against following the companies’ recommendations to revive the plantations, as such efforts were deemed futile and likely to increase farmers’ losses.
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Growmore Biotech Ltd., Agri-biotechnology based company located at Hosur, Tamilnadu, India (40 KMs from Bangalore city), is a registered Public Limited Company under companies act 1956. The Founder Promoter of the company is an Agricultural Scientist with over 37 years of experience in this Field of Tissue Culture and Agriculture.
Growmore Biotech has been set up to produce tissue culture plants of 85 different species of plants covering Horticultural plants, Forestry trees, Herbal Plants, Ornamental Plants and Agricultural Plants that are free from diseases. Presently bamboo plants are produced in large quantity for farmers who are practicing Hi-tech horticulture in India and abroad. Many have planted bamboo tissue culture plants produced by the company and benefited high yield and return.
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