All About Tabah Bamboo from Upstream to Downstream with Lecturer From FTP Unud

Bamboo is a multipurpose plant because all parts of the bamboo such as stems, leaves, roots and shoots can be utilized, including its use as part of traditional Balinese rituals. From a conservation perspective, bamboo functions as a plant on critical land and as a water reservoir. Tabah bamboo is a type of bamboo that is considered less and less cared for, especially in the Pupuan Tabanan area of Bali. Starting from the condition of Tabah Bamboo which is starting to become scarce, one of the lecturers of the Agricultural and Biosystem Engineering Study Program (TPB) Faculty of Agricultural Technology, Udayana University (FTP Unud), namely Dr. Ir. Pande Ketut Diah Kencana, M.S conducted research on the development of Tabah bamboo from upstream to downstream.

 

Mrs. Dr. Ir. Pande Ketut Diah Kencana, M.S is one of the female researchers who thoroughly peels resilient bamboo from upstream to downstream and has produced 14 derivative products of tough bamboo starting from the stems, leaves and shoots and empowering bamboo processing groups through cooperatives. Research related to bamboo has been carried out since 1990 when she was continuing her master's program at IPB University. She hopes that the research carried out can help to increase the selling price of the bamboo itself.

 

Mrs. Dr. Ir. Pande Ketut Diah Kencana, M.S also said that she wanted to educate and inform the public regarding Resilient Bamboo and she also reported that Resilient Bamboo has nutritional values ??such as its high fiber, vitamin and antioxidant content. She also reported that already produced several food products from tabah bamboo such as bamboo shoots in vacuum packaging, bamboo shoot flour as a prebiotic, and bamboo shoots pickles.

 

For her perseverance and tenacity in thoroughly peeling tabah bamboo as an applicable object of research, Mrs. Dr. Ir. Pande Ketut Diah Kencana, M.S won the Kehati Award 2020 for the academic category and had received Penyelamat Plasma Nutfah Award in 2018 from the Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture.