Asia Plantation Capital is pleased to announce Phase 1 of a commercial collaboration in India with the country’s biggest, public sector, agarwood plantation group-a community based job, extendingacross the whole of Southern India.

The company has actually grown, andhasnow established over 5,000 grower plantations throughout 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 unit, warehousing and a packing and forwarding centre.

After visits by Dharmendra Kumar-the creator of Vanadurgi-to Thailand, andtoother countries in South East Asia, to study and establish relationships with other office agarwood plantations, Asia Plantation Capital is happy that the group havechosen Asia Plantation Capital to work with them on establishing inoculation solutions and the end-processing of agarwood into all the different (and increasing) products it can offer.During early July, a group from Asia Plantation Capital’s Specialist Inoculation and Research Department performed field trials in India to examine the best inoculation systems-based on our experience in improving a system in Thailand and Malaysia which has a 100 % success rate in stimulating the production of agarwood resin, and which is 100 % organic; equivalent to oud oils produced in nature. Jack Sirichai, who headed the teamfrom Asia Plantation Capital’s Thailand office (based in Bangkok) stated,”It was a remarkable experience to meet Dharmendra and his group of farmers when we arrived. Over 500 of themhad took a trip, for lots of hours, to meet and greet us with an official reception, kept in our honour. We were overwhelmed to discover a lot of people who share our passion for establishing the agarwood industry and for employing the very best husbandry andocially responsible management practices to advance this massive plantation industry in a comsustainable way. Providing and nurturing community support is a foundation of our own policies at Asia Plantation Capital; to share this with such an enthusiastic group is key to our ongoing growth and success.

The Asia Plantation Capital team will now be working closely with Vanadurgi to keep track of and assess our inoculation processes.All countries (and even regions)have differing climatic and biodiversity conditions-all of which have a major result on the efficiency of these systems-and itis importantthatwe tailor and research study our techniques to providethemaximum 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 solutions, distillation, and developing customer items which we can jointly market-creating the world’s biggest, incorporated producerandsupplier of agarwood -with the abilityto offer long term, sustainable materials of constant quality to the global market place.Asia Plantation Capital chooses, very carefully, whomit works with andwith whom itshares its technologies.The advantages forthe largest agarwood plantation group in India-gained byjointly dealing with Asia Plantation Capital-arethe capacity to produce the biggest, single supplierandgrower in the world and to increase the market share for both companies. This offers both business the chance to benefit from joint research and innovations; helpingtofurthersecure the future market and sustainable materials of agarwood, for both companies and the industry.

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About Asia Plantation Capital

Asia Plantation Capital is an owner and operator of a varied variety of industrial plantation and farming companies across the Asia-Pacific region-and worldwide, part of the Asia Plantation Capital Group of associated companies. Their focus is on multicultural and diverse plantation projects, geared to the domestic and industrial demands of the nations where they run. Working closely with, and supporting regional communities is an underlying core concept of the APC business-providing social and cultural support (along with investment)to move these communities away from deforestation and illegal logging activitieswhich werepreviously viewed as a primary income source in some regions of Asia. Developed officially in 2008, although operating privately given that 2002, the group now has plantation and agricultural projects on 4 continents-with functional jobs at different phases in: Thailand, Malaysia, China, Laos, India, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Mozambique, The Gambia, North America and Europe. Promoting the use of qualified wood is the very best way of preventing logging, securing biodiversity and combatting poverty in the Tropical Rainforest regions. For the Yachting Sector, which strives for excellence and which is currently associated with ecological efforts, this is also a method of ensuring that no wood from unlawful logging is made use of.

Agarwood

The Vanadurgi Agarwood India Limited is a public sector business that is exclusively participated in the growing, production and marketing of agarwood. The business has huge experience, proficiency and establishments in each and every sector of the agarwood market. The business has developed over 5,000 agarwood plantations and is emerging as one of the world’s largest agarwood plantation companies. Our goal is to end up being a one-stop-shop for agarwood basic materials, with no parallels somewhere else worldwide. We plan to fulfill that objective through a combination of experience and partnerships with leading experts from around the world.The company has actually established 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 business has developed an old model plantation, an agriculture research study station, a synthetic inoculum multiplying unit, warehousing, and a packing and forwarding centre. Even more, a conventional resinous wood extraction facility with a large scale primary processing system is likewise being planned right here. Also, full-fledged main processing systems are planned at Madikeri, Sakaleshpur, Shimoga, Sirsi, Puttur and Kollur in Karnataka, and collection centres at Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu and at Kalpetta in Kerala