Two-year observation was made in six fixed plots regarding the effect of tending on the main economic characters of bamboo shoots and young bamboo culms. Results indicated that there is a significant variation with the tending treatments in the number of shoots germinated, the number of culms developed, the diameter at height of the eye of the young culms, the size of individual leaves, the leaf area of individual culms, the moisture content of the leaf, the chlorophyll content of the leaf, and the specific...