Asia Plantation Capital is pleased to announce Phase 1 of a commercial collaboration in India

Asia Plantation Capital is pleased to announce Phase 1 of a commercial collaboration in India with the nation’s biggest, public sector, agarwood plantation group-a neighborhood based project, extendingacross the entire of Southern India.

Vanadurgi Agarwood India was established around 10 years earlier as a cooperative-shareholder business model-providing regional farmers and landowners with planting stocks, and support to cultivate agarwood and other cash crops. The business has grown, andhasnow established 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 established an old-model plantation system, an agriculture research study station, an artificial-inoculummultiplying unit, warehousing and a packing and forwarding centre. In addition, a requirement, resinous wood extraction facility with alarge scale, primary processing device is being planned here. Also, fully-fledged, main processing systems are prepared 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 nations in South East Asia, to study and develop relationships with other office agarwood plantations, Asia Plantation Capital is pleased that the group havechosen Asia Plantation Capital to work with them on establishing inoculation options 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 carried out field trials in India to assess the finest 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 % natural; similar to oud oils produced in nature. We were overwhelmed to find so lots of people who share our passion for establishing the agarwood industry and for employing the best husbandry andocially liable management practices to advance this huge plantation market in a comsustainable manner.

The Asia Plantation Capital team will certainly now be working carefully with Vanadurgi to keep an eye on and evaluate our inoculation processes.All nations (as well as areas) have varying weather and biodiversity conditions-all which have a significant impact on the performance of these systems-and itis importantthatwe tailor and research study our methods to provide the maximum yield and quality of the end oud that is produced in all the regions.

Stage 2 of the collaboration will see Asia Plantation Capital and Vanadurgi dealing with end-processing options, purification, and developing consumer products which we can collectively market-creating the world’s biggest, incorporated producerandsupplier of agarwood -with the abilityto offer long term, sustainable supplies of consistent quality to the worldwide market place.Asia Plantation Capital picks, very thoroughly, whom it deals with andwith whom it shares its technologies.The advantages forthe biggest agarwood plantation group in India-gained byjointly working with Asia Plantation Capital-arethe capacity to produce the largest, single supplierandgrower on the planet andtoincrease themarket share for both business. This offers both business the chance to take advantage of joint research study and technologies; helpingtofurthersecure the future market and sustainable materials of agarwood, for both companies and the market.

Notes to Editors: About Asia Plantation CapitalAsia Plantation Capital is an owner and operator of a diverse variety of commercial plantation and farming businesses throughout the Asia-Pacific region-and globally, part of the Asia Plantation Capital Group of associated business. Established officially in 2008, although running privately because 2002, the group now has plantation and farming projects on four continents-with functional jobs at various phases in: Thailand, Malaysia, China, Laos, India, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Mozambique, The Gambia, North America and Europe.Promoting the use of licensed wood is the finest method of preventing deforestation, protecting biodiversity and combatting poverty in the Tropical Rainforest regions.

About Vanadurgi

AgarwoodThe Vanadurgi Agarwood India Limited is a public sector business that is exclusively engaged in the growing, production and marketing of agarwood. The company has huge experience, expertise and facilities in each and every segment of the agarwood market. The business has actually developed 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 prepare to meet that goal through a mix of experience and collaborations with leading professionals from around the world.The business has actually developed over 5,000 plantations across South India, accounting to about 99 % of trees currently in South India. In the prime plantation zone at Sringeri in Karnataka, the company has actually established an old design plantation, an agriculture research study station, a synthetic inoculum increasing system, warehousing, and a packing and forwarding centre. Even more, a conventional resinous wood extraction facility with a huge scale primary processing unit is also being prepared 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