Our country, Myanmar, with an amazing greenery of trees, shrubs, bamboo, lush forests and fields, demonstrates a perfect tranquil beauty, especially in the countryside, where bamboo trees in abundance can be seen. Needles of any tending, they would grow with nature’s blessing, sometimes thick enough to form a forest. Actually bamboo becomes a bare necessity for the countryside. Because it portrays as a vital constraint in foodstuff and shelters for them. Though city dwellers can make use of plastic utensils those from the countryside are fond of utensils produced form their regional bamboo plants. At their work-sites also, they would use their self-made bamboo ware very commonly. In making bamboo ware, the hollow stems are halved along their length and then the halves are again halved into quarters from which very slender bamboo strips are peeled with manual dexterity. A typical bamboo house for the village dwellers is a common dwelling place, which also minimizes the costs.

For a bamboo hut the roofing, walling and flooring can be done by choosing any kind of bamboo, such as “Wah-Boe” or the King of bamboo, “Wah-Net” or the black bamboo, “Hti-Yoo” or umbrella stand and “Chin-Wah” or suitably, manipulating as desired. Even to tie up the bamboo posts, thin bamboo strips obtained from “Wah-Seit” are widely used. Apart from farms, housewives are also keen on using bamboo kitchen utensils. Bamboo circular trays, concave perforated trays, baskets made from bamboo, all commonly used in treating paddy as well as very handy and become a compulsory item for housewives. The village damsels would use their leisure times making their favourite items from bamboo instead of whiling away the time idly. Not needing to exert in finding the raw materials, they would weave baskets or meshes out the bamboo found in the neighborhood. Quite and envious custom of the village damsels. Bamboo is also used widely in agricultural sector. In betel-nut plantations, the sliced bamboo staffs are used for the plants to climb up healthily, and furthermore used as roofing for the plants. In tying the most tapered end of the vine and the plucked leaves, specially prepared bamboo fine strips are used. They are placed in bamboo baskets and widely meshed bamboo trays.
Bamboo blinds made from sliced bamboo are used in catching fish by placing in water. Containers for the catch are also made of bamboo. Bamboo blinds and curtains are somewhat used as fencing materials and bamboo balance are frequently found in trading jaggery in Upper Myanmar where bamboo head wares are a typical fashion there likewise to be used in the cities, bamboo is transported from all over the country for city dwellers as regional products. Nowadays, besides the natural bamboo forests, there are various kinds of bamboo plantations and that the most useful bamboo raw materials are now easily and abundantly available elsewhere.