Tripura comes up with Bamboo cookies to give a boost to indigenous products

Guwahati: In a major product diversification exercise, Tripura has come up with Bamboo cookies.

Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Friday tweeted, “On the ocassion of World Bamboo day launched Bamboo Cookies and Bamboo made honey bottle. Bamboo cookies and Honey bottle will now add another feather to our cap. It will generate livelihood opportunities for many & fulfill PM @narendramodi Ji's vision of #AtmaNirbharBharat .”



Bamboo and Cane Development Institute (BCDI) has also developed honey bottles. According to BCDI this will boost the immunity and provide livelihood options.

BCDI’s Tripura head Avinav Kant said that the cookies are made from the shoots of “Muli Bamboo”, available in abundance in Tripura and other northeastern states.