The Bamboo Link
The Bamboo Link (TBL) App is India’s 1st B2B and B2C bamboo-centric platform. A first-of-its-kind AI-powered App in the world, The Bamboo Link App aims to bring the entire bamboo sector-based knowledge and stakeholders under one robust platform with an aim to create a sustainable economy by effectively harnessing the power of bamboo.
The Bamboo Link App enables users’ access to need-based technical and managerial information, inputs, insights and guidance for bamboo cultivation, manufacturing, technologies, and marketing. The main objective of this initiative is to promote a green economy and generate green jobs. The Bamboo Link facilitates the exchange of knowledge and information among various stakeholders within the bamboo sector in India to create economic or business opportunities, exchange ideas, develop products and technologies, and instigate policy discussions to aid actions on sustainable industrial development. At the same time, the App also provides the end consumer access to any bamboo-related information and become a part of the ecosystem.
Holding the potential to drive true sustainable development, bamboo can transform the social-economic landscape of rural India. Bamboo’s versatility and its varied applications has been known throughout history. It has been a key source of livelihood for a number of cultures. Thus, by joining this bamboo app, tribal artisans can establish their bamboo craft business by availing the necessary knowledge and skills to create and market handmade / handcrafted bamboo products. Bamboo has the potential to be a key vehicle for long-term and widespread development, enhancing economic opportunity, income, and employment, particularly in the underdeveloped areas of India.
The App has a unique user interface that enables users to build their profile, select preferred areas of interest in the Bamboo sector, and even narrow it down to industry categories or sub-categories. This enables the AI to provide custom feeds, connecting with the right profiles and recommend App features to the users as per their preferences. Users can upload product pictures, videos, and reports and connect or network with a panel of reputed bamboo experts and mentors via the chat function. The Bamboo Link App provides access to a vast bank of Knowledge and Skill videos, reports, white papers, latest news, and sector-specific niche services.
Being an eco-friendly material, Bamboo has the true potential to revolutionise the Indian manufacturing sector. Bamboo product manufacturing and marketing can help to create more socially and economically stable communities by providing them with new sources of income and a higher quality of life.
Around 25% of bamboo species of the world are found in India and are distributed widely across almost all states. It thus has a huge scope in replacing less sustainable resources, including steel, plastic, and timber as much as possible. By effectively utilising bamboo as a resource, updating existing products, and launching new products through suitable market linkage, these unsustainable materials can be substituted, and green jobs can be created. At The Bamboo Link app, we enable users to sell bamboo wood, buy unique bamboo products online, share bamboo business ideas, connect with investors, discuss bamboo farming practices, and network with Indian bamboo industry experts.
This App is recommended for Bamboo Product Buyers and Suppliers, Service Providers, Entrepreneurs, Bamboo Farmers, Bamboo Artisans, Retailers, Traders, Small Business Owners, Bamboo Wholesalers, Architects, Interior Designers, Engineers, Designers, Students, Scientists, Policy Makers, and Investors etc.
Conceived and built by the Foundation of MSME Clusters (FMC), The Bamboo Link App aims to tap into the immense potential of the bamboo material to deliver on two much-needed aspects –empower bamboo artisans and improve livelihoods; assist in mitigating climate change and creating a greener economy.