Abstract:
Bamboo plants could grow starts from the banks of the river, up into the
mountains, so the bamboo that grow naturally or are planted in Loksado is one of
the commodity which could open a kind of business with employment of people
live there, which also increase incomes. But the magnitude potential of bamboo
has not been known, neither bamboo species that grows on the banks of the river.
On the other hand, the information about bamboo is very important in order to
manage in a sustainable bamboo management.
The research was held on the banks of the River of Amandit, District of
Loksado, Hulu Sungai Selatan Regency. The data was taken by using terraced
paths (nested sampling) with a size of 20 m x 500 m, in the path of created plots
with the measurement about 20m x 20m. The data was taking in two lines.
Analysis of the data is using the Important Value Index.
Based on the research, it was found 4 (four) types of bamboo that is;
Bamboo Banar/Rabungan (Gigantochloa psendianum linoceae), bamboo reed
(Schizoseyum brchycladum Kurtz), Bamboo Tali (Gigantochloa lear), bamboo
Tamiang (Schizoseyum blamei Ness). Index values are important for each type of
bamboo which are, bamboo ridge (77.14), the bamboo haur (37.51), the bamboo
rope (23.10), the bamboo reed (22.17) and sweet bamboo (23,52). The potential of
bamboo on the location of the study, was found that there were 476 bamboo
groves. Additional knowledge is required to cultivate bamboo in the study site so
that it can be utilized in a sustainable way.
