**4.4. Bamboo pulp and paper**

Bamboo is endowed with a long fibre length, and this makes bamboo pulp suitable for papermaking. It has been found out that from 4 tons of bamboo nearly 1 ton of pulp is produced which is utilised in different furnishes for production of paper and board [78]. China and India use bamboo mainly for producing pulp and paper. Bamboo paper has the same quality with paper made from wood. Its brightness and optical properties remain stable while those papers make from wood may deteriorate over time. The morphological characteristics of bamboo fibres give paper made from bamboo a high tear index [97].
