There is ample supply of bamboo in the project area, which the villagers use for many purposes, among them as material for housing (walls and roofs), for fences, for animal enclosures, and for other daily household uses. Bamboo is the main material for baskets, and different types of baskets are made for a great variety of uses: as fishing equipment, for storing rice and other foods, threshing and husking rice, and for steaming foods, especially glutinous rice. Basketry is traditionally the work of both men and women, with women mainly responsible for collecting materials, men and women making the baskets. Men are mainly responsible for the uses of bamboo for house construction.