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Plantations International joins Federation of Thai Industries
BANGKOK, February 7, 2021 (AgroforestryNews) – The Plantations International agroforestry group of companies is very pleased to announce that Bangkok based Plantations International Co. Limited has joined the prestigious Federation of Thai Industries.
The Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) is a private sector organization that brings together industrial leaders to promote Thailand’s economic development. The main objectives of FTI are to represent Thai manufacturers at both national and international levels, to help promote and develop industrial enterprises, to work with the government in setting up national policies, and to offer consulting services to members.
FTI cooperates with the government to mobilize Thai industries to reach international markets. It acts as a “matchmaker” between foreign industrialists and Thai resources which combine the financial strength, planning ability, and persuasive power of Thailand’s industrialists.
By joining the FTI Plantations International is now perfectly positioned to expand its Agarwood and Mango investment programs and plantations throughout Thailand.
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Agarwood Investment Signals High Returns
Plantations International have been at the forefront of commercial forestry and have been offering clients in Asia the opportunity of receiving higher returns through their untiring efforts in Agarwood cultivation.
According to Plantations International investment plans, prospective investors are not only guaranteed returns but also the corresponding number of trees as per one’s individual plan belongs to them. An initial minimum investment requirement is 100 trees. However, a potential investor can increase their outlay and Plantations International is equipped with the capacity of issuing suitable investment instruments to match this value.
Moreover, from the minimum investment to the maximum Plantations International investment plan, each tree has a fixed value of US$280 Even in the instance where an investor opts for the minimum plan of 100 trees, the fixed amount US$280 is applicable, indicating the total value towards purchase of these trees at US$28,000 . After a period of seven years, the guaranteed returns have a IRR rate of around 19%.
Within the short span, the technology for the commercial production of Agarwood has been obtained by the Plantations International agroforestry group through Instiper University in Yogyakarta Indonesia. Moreover, Plantations International receives ongoing advice, the fullest cooperation and the technical guidance from the University.
The Plantations International Agarwood plants are produced in Indonesia and Malaysia and the seeds are imported to Sri Lanka after being certified and approved by Plantations International. Establishing a state-of-the-art nursery to cultivate Aquilaria trees in Johor, Malaysia and in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Plantations International has ventured into popularizing Agarwood as a home garden crop too.
According to Plantations International, a host of current investors are those engaged in small and medium enterprises. The Company is also promoting Agarwood as an investment among the rural folk accepting a token amount.
The Company is also creating awareness that Agarwood investment in terms of commercial forestry provides higher and secure returns, is eco-friendly and offers ownership of the land. Plantations International emphasizes they rigidly employ all legal formalities and proper methods from importing seeds, planting cultures to harvesting.
As an Organisation that has been in the forefront of commercial forestry for over a decade, Plantations International is keen to create awareness of the prospects of Agarwood investment by divulging all possible facts before their clientele in a positive manner.
Commenting on Agarwood as a profitable investment option, Plantations International Chief Executive Director, Mr. Paul Martin said “As an organization with a well-earned reputation for over a decade we have been extremely successful in promoting sustainable commercial forestry projects. Also we have been fruitful in offering Aquilaria trees for the very first time to the Asian market promoting a safe and environment friendly investment option with medium-term returns. In association with Westcorp, among the largest cultivators of Sandalwood in Australia we are able to offer our customers a higher return.”
“Directly liaising and under the precise supervision of the State Agriculture Departments, the Plantations International Agarwood seeds are imported and we obtain all the approvals from the National Plant Quarantine Service assuring potential investors of the highest quality standards of the trees.
With assurance of manifold prosperity, offering a secure and higher return, join us for a methodically guaranteed investment option,” he added.
According to Mr. Paul Martin, Plantations International is using the CAKit (Cultivated Agarwood) in Indonesia, a patented product invented by Prof. Robert Blanchette, from the University of Minnesota of the United States. Through the use of this method, Agarwood production can be enhanced inside the Aquilaria trees. The CAKit Agarwood inducement technology is the only application which guarantees Agarwood formation in all resin producing Aquilaria trees species.
Plantations International, which began operations over 20 years ago, has always been in the forefront of commercial forestry with environment friendly projects contributing towards conservation. These projects on the whole have accrued benefits for the environment and the country as a whole. More importantly throughout their decade of operations no investors have been dissatisfied with their offered investment strategies and Plantations International has not received any customer complaints to-date.
Promoting the possible sustainability of bamboo
At World Bamboo, we make every effort to offer the facts, the fact and the capacities of bamboo. While promoting the possible sustainability of bamboo, we likewise acknowledge “bothersome facts” such as the obstacle of accreditation, finest management practices, chain of custody, and employees security in the production of bamboo items, and so on. Business in the company of bamboo who are sourcing their product from other nations require to understand the facts and the facts of how bamboo grows, how it is gathered, who possesses the bamboo, how it is processed.
Some individuals might visualize hundreds of thousands of acres of “bamboo plantation”, nevertheless even in the most plentiful bamboo forests of China, a lot of are possessed and handled by households. The boost in need for bamboo items has actually enhanced the regional requirement of living in and around these bamboo forests, nevertheless many of these bamboo farmers do not have the resources to use chemical fertilizers or pesticides. Appropriate management methods frequently correspond to healthy bamboo stands, so using pesticides is not needed, yet alone attempting to “water” huge bamboos on sloped hillsides.
World Bamboo does certainly value the requirement for agroforestry group customers to feel comfy with the purchase of bamboo items, and World Bamboo is dedicated to being a part of promoting sustainable and liable forestry practices. At World Bamboo, we are positive that bamboo has a rightful location as an exceptional option to standard wood and fiber sources.
Bamboo is a huge group of plants (over 1,400 types) and it is a native plant on every continent other than Europe and Antarctica. Bamboo groves avoid disintegration, clean the air, shop carbon, supply environment, supply food, offer biomass, offer resource, and supply chances for neighborhood advancement.
For bamboo to save its fundamental green qualifications, it is needed for us as users, growers, designers, engineers, designers, researchers, etc, to focus on its technical, social, cultural and financial values. This method bamboo can provide genuinely sustainable options.
Growing Bamboo Trees: A Private Sector Approach to REDD+
The last One Decade of REDD and REDD+ advancement have actually revealed that the cost credited to and the desire to spend for forest based environment services, whether through compliance or a voluntary plans, is not likely to ever take on the marketplace rate for wood and fiber that originates from the logging and deterioration of the world’s staying natural forests.
Although task level advantages might be substantial, so long as need continues and a prospering market offers appealing returns on the harvesting of natural forests, leak is inescapable, and genuinely measurable REDD+ in lots of countries will certainly be tough to accomplish. The mathematics is basic: plantation forests still provide just a portion of our fuel and fiber requirements, and without an option, at the international scale the deterioration will certainly continue, although the real place might move. For that reason dealing with the motorists of logging, a property on which REDD was developed, through the arrangement of long and sustainable term options is vital.
United States based EcoPlanet Bamboo is industrializing bamboo, produced under rigid methods and treatments and established around a structure of favorable social and ecological effect as an economic sector system that has the possible to contribute to dealing with a significant motorist of logging, regrow fragmented forest environments and recover environment functions. Through such a system, and through the arrangement of licensed bamboo fiber to markets that presently drive logging, commercially produced bamboo can be one piece of the puzzle in moving the REDD+ program forward, all while sequestering and keeping substantial volumes of climatic CO2.
Our utmost objective is to resolve the easy supply and need for wood and fiber within a concrete timeframe and under a structure that this “alternative” fiber is produced just in a manner that satisfies market need, without an associated ecological expense, an economic sector and financially sensible option to the world’s requirement for fiber. Such fiber is utilized in everything, from every day customer products such as toilet paper, kitchen area and tissue paper, to clothes and fabrics, to crafted lumber for building, real estate and furnishings, to charcoal and other fuel items.
Environmentally speaking, the 1,200 plus types of bamboo are part of the yard household however the biomass the plant produces is a wood like fiber, with buildings that mirror image those of lots of standard wood types, from woods to softwoods. Like any other crop being produced commercially, bamboo needs a strict management routine, and lots of inputs.
In the context of REDD+, bamboo’s biggest benefit in addition to being an alternative fiber for lumber reliant markets, is its capability to be grown on marginal and abject land, therefore not taking on food security, and produce a huge volume of fiber on a yearly basis, without the requirement for replanting. For that reason not just does its production offer a fiber that decreases pressure on natural forests, whether that represents fiber to change kraft pulp presently utilized in toilet tissue and sourced from old development boreal forests in Canada and Russia, to fiber that can change liquefying pulp for fabrics and clothes which is presently sourced from the cleaning of main tropical forests in Indonesia and somewhere else, however it can be an important device for effective remediation, especially if native types are grown.
Within a 6-8 year duration, depending upon the levels of destruction, and the capability to carry out a set and comprehend of special methods, bamboo produces a long-term and constant canopy cover, its strong root system separates compressed soil and supplies water filtering advantages, bring back water tables and handling water cycles, boost natural soil carbon and nutrient levels, and as EcoPlanet Bamboo’s VCS verified and confirmed tasks in Nicaragua have actually revealed, can sequester and accumulate to 800 lots of CO2e per hectare.
Measurable carbon (whether as a REDD+ effort or as an uncomplicated Afforestation/Reforestation job), social and biodiversity effects are a requirements for the business’s jobs, as is Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) accreditation for the sustainable management of the bamboo resource itself. If done properly, and this structure adhered to as jobs enhance in scale and scope, bamboo might show to be a genuinely financially sensible system to accomplished the core elements of REDD+.