Asia Plantation Capital is proud to announce Stage 1 of a commercial collaboration in India with the country’s biggest, public sector, agarwood plantation group-a community based task, extendingacross the entire of Southern India.
Vanadurgi Agarwood India was developed around 10 years back as a cooperative-shareholder company model-providing regional farmers and landowners with planting stocks, and support tocultivate agarwood and other cash crops. The company has grown, andhasnow developed over 5,000 grower plantations across South India; accounting forabout 99 % of agarwood trees currently in South India. In the prime plantation zone at Sringeri, in Karnataka, the business has developed 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 alarge scale, main processing device is being planned here. Also, fully-fledged, primary processing systems are planned at: Madikeri, Sakaleshpur, Shimoga, Sirsi, Puttur and Kollur (in Karnataka)withcollection centres at Coimbatore (in Tamil Nadu)and at Kalpetta (in Kerala).
After visits by Dharmendra Kumar-the creator of Vanadurgi-to Thailand, andtoother countries in South East Asia, to study and establish relationships with other business agarwood plantations, Asia Plantation Capital is pleased that the group have chosen Asia Plantation Capital to work with them on establishing inoculation options andtheend-processing of agarwood into all the different (and enhancing)items it can offer. During early July, a group from Asia Plantation Capital’s Specialist Inoculation and Research Department brought out field trials in India to assess the best inoculation systems-based on our experience in perfecting a system in Thailand and Malaysia which has a 100 % success rate in stimulating the production of agarwood resin, and which is 100 % natural; comparable to oud oils produced in nature. We were overwhelmed to discover so numerous people who share our enthusiasm for developing the agarwood industry and for utilizing the finest husbandry andocially responsible management practices to advance this enormous plantation industry in a comsustainable way.
The Asia Plantation Capital group will now be working closely with Vanadurgi to keep track of and assess our inoculation processes.All nations (and even regions)have differing climatic and biodiversity conditions-all of which have a major effect on the performance of these systems-and it is important that we tailor and research study our approaches to provide the maximum yield and quality of completion oud that is produced in all the areas.
Phase 2 of the collaboration will certainly see Asia Plantation Capital and Vanadurgi dealing with end-processing options, distillation, and establishing customer products which we can collectively market-creating the world’s biggest, incorporated producer and supplier of agarwood -with the ability to offer long term, sustainable materials of consistent quality to the global market place.Asia Plantation Capital selects, very carefully, whom it works with and with whom it shares its technologies.The benefits for the biggest agarwood plantation group in India-gained by jointly dealing with Asia Plantation Capitalare the capacity to develop the biggest, single supplier and grower worldwide and to increase the market share for both companies. This offers both companies the chance to gain from joint research and innovations; helping to further secure the future market and sustainable supplies of agarwood, for both companies and the market.
Notes to Editors: About Asia Plantation CapitalAsia Plantation Capital is an owner and operator of a varied range of business plantation and farming businesses across the Asia-Pacific region-and worldwide, part of the Asia Plantation Capital Group of associated companies. Their focus is on varied and multicultural plantation projects, geared to the domestic and office demands of the nations in which they run. Working closely with, and supporting regional neighborhoods is a hidden core concept of the APC business-providing social and cultural support (along with investment)to move these neighborhoods far from deforestation and unlawful logging activities which were previously seen as a main income in some regions of Asia. Established officially in 2008, although operating independently considering that 2002, the group now has plantation and farming jobs on four continents-with functional tasks at numerous 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 finest method of preventing logging, safeguarding biodiversity and fighting poverty in the Tropical Rainforest areas. For the Yachting Sector, which pursues excellence and which is already associated with environmental efforts, this is also a way of guaranteeing that no wood from prohibited logging is made use of.
About Vanadurgi
AgarwoodThe Vanadurgi Agarwood India Limited is a public sector business that is solely participated in the cultivation, production and marketing of agarwood. The company has massive experience, competence and establishments in each and every segment of the agarwood market. The company has actually established over 5,000 agarwood plantations and is emerging as one of the world’s largest agarwood plantation companies. Our objective is to end up being a one-stop-shop for agarwood basic materials, without any parallels in other places worldwide. We plan to satisfy that objective through a mix of experience and partnerships with leading professionals from around the world.The business has established over 5,000 plantations across 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 design plantation, an agriculture research station, an artificial inoculum increasing unit, warehousing, and a packing and forwarding centre. Further, a conventional resinous wood extraction facility with a big scale primary processing device is also being prepared right here. Likewise, full-fledged main processing systems are prepared at Madikeri, Sakaleshpur, Shimoga, Sirsi, Puttur and Kollur in Karnataka, and collection centres at Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu and at Kalpetta in Kerala