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TEAK PLANTATION HARVESTING IN THAILAND
Teak is one of the most valuable kinds of timber. It has long been one of Thailand’s important exports. However, the yield is diminishing when the concession has been banned in 1989. Because of heavy loggings by big foreigner companies last century the government is now trying hardly to restore the teak woods by planting new trees everywhere possible. The FIO, a state enterprise for the utilization of forest resource, has many reforestation projects throughout the country. The FIO controls total area of teak plantation 80,000 hectares. On the basis of the silvicultural system adopted by FIO, the teak rotation cycle last between 20-35 years.
In July 2001, FIO received "sustainable management" certification of two teak plantations from the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). The FIO has plans to obtain certification for all its 134 tree plantations. The FSC-approved certification of the FIO’s plantations would provide a lifeline to the struggling agency by assisting the sales of "certified" timber to markets in Europe and North America seeking timber from "sustainable" and "well-managed" sources. The certification would also support the ongoing efforts of the agency to remake its image as a "sustainable" forest management agency. Therefore, when FSC provided ‘certification’, it undermined the whole of Thailand’s environmental movement and the ongoing local processes for increased community control over forests. It renews the commercial influence on Thailand’s forests so that these agencies can resume their logging practices.
TIMBER HARVESTING TECHNIQUES
In 1939, the Thai government established Timber Harvesting Division under the Royal Forest Department. This agency was responsible for manufacturing of wood for sale, the training of employees to monitor private logging companies and to control wood prices. The agency changed to a stateenterprise for forest conservation and utilization by the name of Forest Industry Organization(FIO) in 1956. Since the establishment of the FIO, the logging of teak and non-teak has been the main task of the organization. The harvesting techniques have undergone development as result of advances in technology. These developments take account of the geological, social, and natural environment. Specialized logging equipment, cables logging used with the working elephants, are employed in mountain harvesting areas. As a result of the logging equipment, there is no need to build roads into the forest. Consequently, forest conservation is progressing and the villagers’ encroachment into the forest is also hindered.
Timbers Harvesting Operation Permission Sought
• Mark the trees to be cut and run serial number
• Submit the report to the chief of the regional Forestry Office.
• Regional Forestry Office then sends an official to check the accuracy of
the report by sampling of 5%
• Send the report to the Royal Forestry Department(RFD) with an
explanation why Thinning/Harvesting Operation needs to be done.
• Thinning/Harvesting operation starts after the permission has been
granted
Please contact
MOTHER AGRI BIOTECH LABORATORIES INDIA PVT. LTD. BANGALORE.
We are one and only high yielding tissue culture teak producers in India & abroad
*
*
BALAKRISHNA MUTHUKURI
MOTHER AGRI BIOTECH LABORATORIES INDIA PVT. LTD.
BANGALORE.
+919035003471
+919908286565
Teak is one of the most valuable kinds of timber. It has long been one of Thailand’s important exports. However, the yield is diminishing when the concession has been banned in 1989. Because of heavy loggings by big foreigner companies last century the government is now trying hardly to restore the teak woods by planting new trees everywhere possible. The FIO, a state enterprise for the utilization of forest resource, has many reforestation projects throughout the country. The FIO controls total area of teak plantation 80,000 hectares. On the basis of the silvicultural system adopted by FIO, the teak rotation cycle last between 20-35 years.
In July 2001, FIO received "sustainable management" certification of two teak plantations from the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). The FIO has plans to obtain certification for all its 134 tree plantations. The FSC-approved certification of the FIO’s plantations would provide a lifeline to the struggling agency by assisting the sales of "certified" timber to markets in Europe and North America seeking timber from "sustainable" and "well-managed" sources. The certification would also support the ongoing efforts of the agency to remake its image as a "sustainable" forest management agency. Therefore, when FSC provided ‘certification’, it undermined the whole of Thailand’s environmental movement and the ongoing local processes for increased community control over forests. It renews the commercial influence on Thailand’s forests so that these agencies can resume their logging practices.
TIMBER HARVESTING TECHNIQUES
In 1939, the Thai government established Timber Harvesting Division under the Royal Forest Department. This agency was responsible for manufacturing of wood for sale, the training of employees to monitor private logging companies and to control wood prices. The agency changed to a stateenterprise for forest conservation and utilization by the name of Forest Industry Organization(FIO) in 1956. Since the establishment of the FIO, the logging of teak and non-teak has been the main task of the organization. The harvesting techniques have undergone development as result of advances in technology. These developments take account of the geological, social, and natural environment. Specialized logging equipment, cables logging used with the working elephants, are employed in mountain harvesting areas. As a result of the logging equipment, there is no need to build roads into the forest. Consequently, forest conservation is progressing and the villagers’ encroachment into the forest is also hindered.
Timbers Harvesting Operation Permission Sought
• Mark the trees to be cut and run serial number
• Submit the report to the chief of the regional Forestry Office.
• Regional Forestry Office then sends an official to check the accuracy of
the report by sampling of 5%
• Send the report to the Royal Forestry Department(RFD) with an
explanation why Thinning/Harvesting Operation needs to be done.
• Thinning/Harvesting operation starts after the permission has been
granted
Please contact
MOTHER AGRI BIOTECH LABORATORIES INDIA PVT. LTD. BANGALORE.
We are one and only high yielding tissue culture teak producers in India & abroad
*
*
BALAKRISHNA MUTHUKURI
MOTHER AGRI BIOTECH LABORATORIES INDIA PVT. LTD.
BANGALORE.
+919035003471
+919908286565
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