How to start bamboo farming in India and which species gives good income?

Bamboo is an excellent long term crop for India, fast growing, suitable for degraded and bund land, and useful for poles, construction, furniture, agarbatti sticks, handicrafts, paper and even shoots, with Assam and the northeast being a natural bamboo belt. Choose a species to match your market, for example commercial clump forming types valued for strong poles or industrial use; your state forest department or a bamboo mission nodal agency can advise the best species for your district and end use. Plant on a spacing suited to the species, water in early years, and a clump starts giving harvestable culms in about three to four years, then yields annually for decades since you cut mature culms and the clump regrows. It needs little replanting, which is a big advantage. Markets include construction, agarbatti, furniture and paper units. Confirm species, planting material source and buyers, and ask about National Bamboo Mission support through your state agency before planting.