No wonder it observed the International Bamboo Day in style on September 18, with Vice-President Hamid Ansari gracing the occasion as the chief guest.
Nagaland, which has about 4.5 lakh hectares under bamboo, owns only about 5 per cent of India’s growing bamboo stock.
But when it comes to putting it into economic use through value addition, it has been leading with a number of bamboo-based units coming up in the past few years.