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Quality Timber Products of Teak from Sustainable Forest Management
2-5 December 2003, Peechi, Kerala, India
Qualities of Teak and Some Policy Issues C. Chandrasekharan
Teak is a component species of the tropical moist and dry deciduous forests of the South and South-East Asian region. It is also a potential tree for raising plantations. Teak wood is used as the standard for quality rating of other timbers of India. Quality of teak products is prescribed rigidly by the market, and it essentially depends on the quality of the wood, besides the processing technology. The wood has considerable value-adding and income generating potential.
Teak entered the international market as early as in the beginning of 19th century. Along the way, starting in the mid 1880s, plantations of teak were raised, in order to replenish the removed stock. Currently, the availability of natural teak is limited, and supply of teak logs come mostly from plantation sources. Teak plantations are now being raised on a large number in countries of the tropical region, outside its natural habitat. Of the total world’s forest plantations of 187.1 million hectares in 2000, teak accounts for 5.7 million hectares (about 3%). It is also now grown in different scales by farmers, agriculturists,agro-forestersandinvestorsofvarioustypes. Theoutlookforteakasabusinessenterprise raises several policy issues related to land tenures, land use and land allocation, land laws, infrastructure, planting technology and systems (monoculture vs polyculture), genetic improvement, waste free utilization, management systems and horizons, comparative and competitive advantages, role of R&D, capital investment and investors time preference, funding sources, community involvement, private sector roles, new products and markets, antagonists and protagonists of plantation development, market- based approaches to teak development, conflict resolution, control, and so on.
From a policy point of view, apart from its physical properties, teak earns increased merit for the social, environmental and economic benefits it generates. The focus of this paper is on policy issues related to the development of teak as a quality timber.
C. Chandrasekharan
F1, Althara Nagar, Vellayambalam Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India E-mail: mailto:cherukat@vsnl.com
We are one and only high yielding tissue culture teak producers in India & abroad
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BALAKRISHNA MUTHUKURI
MOTHER AGRI BIOTECH LABORATORIES INDIA PVT. LTD.
BANGALORE.
+919035003471
Quality Timber Products of Teak from Sustainable Forest Management
2-5 December 2003, Peechi, Kerala, India
Qualities of Teak and Some Policy Issues C. Chandrasekharan
Teak is a component species of the tropical moist and dry deciduous forests of the South and South-East Asian region. It is also a potential tree for raising plantations. Teak wood is used as the standard for quality rating of other timbers of India. Quality of teak products is prescribed rigidly by the market, and it essentially depends on the quality of the wood, besides the processing technology. The wood has considerable value-adding and income generating potential.
Teak entered the international market as early as in the beginning of 19th century. Along the way, starting in the mid 1880s, plantations of teak were raised, in order to replenish the removed stock. Currently, the availability of natural teak is limited, and supply of teak logs come mostly from plantation sources. Teak plantations are now being raised on a large number in countries of the tropical region, outside its natural habitat. Of the total world’s forest plantations of 187.1 million hectares in 2000, teak accounts for 5.7 million hectares (about 3%). It is also now grown in different scales by farmers, agriculturists,agro-forestersandinvestorsofvarioustypes. Theoutlookforteakasabusinessenterprise raises several policy issues related to land tenures, land use and land allocation, land laws, infrastructure, planting technology and systems (monoculture vs polyculture), genetic improvement, waste free utilization, management systems and horizons, comparative and competitive advantages, role of R&D, capital investment and investors time preference, funding sources, community involvement, private sector roles, new products and markets, antagonists and protagonists of plantation development, market- based approaches to teak development, conflict resolution, control, and so on.
From a policy point of view, apart from its physical properties, teak earns increased merit for the social, environmental and economic benefits it generates. The focus of this paper is on policy issues related to the development of teak as a quality timber.
C. Chandrasekharan
F1, Althara Nagar, Vellayambalam Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India E-mail: mailto:cherukat@vsnl.com
We are one and only high yielding tissue culture teak producers in India & abroad
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*
BALAKRISHNA MUTHUKURI
MOTHER AGRI BIOTECH LABORATORIES INDIA PVT. LTD.
BANGALORE.
+919035003471
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