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Paper
PP0321-12
TitleIn Competition: Teak Smallholders in Java, Indonesia
AuthorAulia Perdana and James M Roshetko
EditorSpencer R. Meyer
Year2012
Parent TitleIUFRO Small-Scale Forestry Conference 2012: Science for Solutions Conference Proceedings
PublisherIUFRO
City of PublicationAmherst, Massachusetts USA
Pages138-143
Call NumberPP0321-12
Abstract:
The area of planted teak forests is estimated to be 4,346 million ha, of which 83% is in Asia (Kollert and Cherubini 2012). In Indonesia, most teak plantations are on Java, where the largest grower, Perum Perhutani, a state-owned forest enterprise, manages 2,442,101 ha of teak plantation (Perhutani 2010).
In addition to Perum Perhutani, there are approximately 1.2 million ha of smallholders’ plantations in Indonesia that primarily produce teak (Nawir et al. 2007). Smallholding plantations rarely use improved germplasm or benefit from silvicultural management such as fertilizer application, weeding, thinning and pruning. Smallholders’ teak is different from long-rotation industrial plantations that benefit from professional management, smallholders’ logs are shorter, have smaller diameter, less clear wood, more knots, and obtain lower prices (Roshetko and Manurung 2009). Despite these shortcomings, smallholding teak plantations are an important source of wood for many teak manufacturers and retailers in Indonesia.
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