5.06.02 – Utilization of planted teak

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The mission of this Working Party is the utilization of teak timber produced within the framework of socially and environmentally acceptable norms of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM).

While it aims to promote all teak wood research programmes, the following objectives were defined for targetted research:

1. Identification of superior planting stock / reproductive material from different provenances/countries/genetically improved strains to produce quality timber
2. Characterisation and industrial/market standardisation of juvenile wood produced in intensively managed plantations
3. Developing models for prediction of intensive silvicultural and genetic improvement techniques on timber quality/market (end-product) value of teak wood.
   

As some of the above research activities will be of relatively long-term nature, the following research agenda is considered to be of immediate priority for formulation and co-ordination of the international cooperative projects by mobilisation of national/international financial resources for possible support: Utilisation (properties and processing) of juvenile and /or sap wood available from thinnings of teak plantations and establishment of grading/quality standards for improved market-value of small dimensional teak timber.

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