Asia Plantation Capital is happy to announce Stage 1 of a commercial collaboration in India with the nation’s largest, public sector, agarwood plantation group-a neighborhood based job, extending across the entire of Southern India.
Vanadurgi Agarwood India was established around 10 years earlier as a cooperative-shareholder company model-providing regional farmers and landowners with growing stocks, and support to cultivate agarwood and other money crops. The business has actually grown, and has now developed over 5,000 grower plantations across South India; accounting for about 99 % of agarwood trees presently in South India. In the prime plantation zone at Sringeri, in Karnataka, the company has established an old-model plantation system, an agriculture research station, an artificial-inoculummultiplying system, warehousing and a packing and forwarding centre. In addition, a requirement, resinous wood extraction center with a large scale, primary processing unit is being planned here. Also, fully-fledged, main processing devices are planned at: Madikeri, Sakaleshpur, Shimoga, Sirsi, Puttur and Kollur (in Karnataka)with collection centres at Coimbatore (in Tamil Nadu)and at Kalpetta (in Kerala).
After visits by Dharmendra Kumar-the founder of Vanadurgi-to Thailand, and to other nations in South East Asia, to study and establish relationships with other office agarwood plantations, Asia Plantation Capital is happy that the group have chosen Asia Plantation Capital to work with them on developing inoculation solutions and the-processing of agarwood into all the numerous (and increasing)products it can offer.During early July, a team from Asia Plantation Capital’s Specialist Inoculation and Research Department brought out field trials in India to evaluate the best inoculation systems-based on our experience in refining a system in Thailand and Malaysia which has a 100 % success rate in promoting the production of agarwood resin, and which is 100 % organic; similar to oud oils produced in nature. We were overwhelmed to find so numerous individuals who share our interest for establishing the agarwood market and for employing the best husbandry andocially accountable management practices to advance this massive plantation market in a comsustainable manner.
The Asia Plantation Capital group will certainly now be working closely with Vanadurgi to keep track of and assess our inoculation processes.All nations (as well as areas)have varying climatic and biodiversity conditions-all which have a major result on the performance of these systems-and it is important that we tailor and research study our methods to provide them maximum yield and quality of completion oud that is produced in all the regions.
Phase 2 of the collaboration will see Asia Plantation Capital and Vanadurgi working on end-processing options, purification, and establishing consumer products which we can collectively market-creating the world’s biggest, integrated producer ands upplier of agarwood -with the ability to offer long term, sustainable products of consistent quality to the global market place.Asia Plantation Capital chooses, really carefully, whom it deals with and with whom its hares its technologies.The advantages for the biggest agarwood plantation group in India-gained by jointly working with Asia Plantation Capital are the capacity to produce the biggest, single supplier and grower in the world and to increase the market share for both business. This offers both business the opportunity to benefit from joint research study and innovations; helping to further secure the future market and sustainable materials of agarwood, for both companies and the industry.
Notes to Editors: About Asia Plantation CapitalAsia Plantation Capital is an owner and operator of a diverse range of business plantation and farming businesses across the Asia-Pacific region-and internationally, part of the Asia Plantation Capital Group of associated business. Their focus is on multicultural and varied plantation tasks, tailored to the domestic and commercial demands of the nations in which they run. Working carefully with, and supporting regional neighborhoods is a hidden core principle of the APC business-providing social and cultural support (as well as investment)to move these communities far from deforestation and illegal logging were previously viewed as a main source of income in some regions of Asia. Established formally in 2008, although running privately considering that 2002, the group now has plantation and agricultural tasks on 4 continents-with operational tasks at various stages in: Thailand, Malaysia, China, Laos, India, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Mozambique, The Gambia, North America and Europe.Promoting the use of certified wood is the very best method of avoiding deforestation, protecting biodiversity and combatting poverty in the Tropical Rainforest regions. For the Yachting Sector, which makes every effort for quality and which is currently associated with environmental efforts, this is also a way of making sure that no wood from prohibited logging is used.
About Vanadurgi
The company has actually established over 5,000 agarwood plantations and is emerging as one of the world’s biggest agarwood plantation companies. We plan to satisfy that goal through a combination of experience and partnerships with leading specialists from around the world.The business has actually developed over 5,000 plantations throughout South India, accounting to about 99 % of trees presently in South India. In the prime plantation zone at Sringeri in Karnataka, the company has established an old model plantation, an agriculture research study station, a synthetic inoculum increasing device, warehousing, and a packing and forwarding centre.