Bamboo to be grown on 5,000 acres to boost rural economy of Latur district, minister says Latur, Feb2 Bamboo on 5,000 acres land will be planted this year to boost the rural economy of Latur district and ethanol refinery from bamboo to be set up in the district on co-operative basis, Guardian Minister Amit Deshmukh said on Tuesday at Lodga in Ausa tehsil. He was speaking at the inauguration of the second phase of "Almac Biotech Lab", the country's first bamboo tissue culture maker. MLA Abhimanyu Pawar, former MLC and chief of the project Pasha Patel, Maharashtra Bamboo Board, Aurangabad Director PB Bhalerao, District Superintendent of Agriculture Officer Dattatraya Gavasane, International Bamboo Expert Sanjeev Karpe, Sub-Divisional Officer Avinash Kamble, Ausa Tehsildar Bharat Suryavanshi, Abhijit Salunkhe and other dignitaries were present on the occasion. Expressing happiness over the project, a pilot project of bamboo that can change the future of agriculture in...