What is teak stump?

Teak root-shoot or stump is chiefly used as a planting material in Teak plantations. The teak root-shoot is prepared by cutting one year old healthy seedlings uprooted from the nursery into 15-20 cm root and 2.5 cm shoot portion with more than one cm thickness.

Is teak wood still available?

Is Teak Sustainable? But there is still one species called Tectona grandis, or ‘common teak’, which is the only form of the wood that’s legal to export, which is one reason teak seems so ubiquitous today.

What is the cost of one teak tree?

Though UP does not have a natural variety of teak, as most of it is plantation, UP forest corporation officials peg the market price of a full-grown teak tree (yielding around 10 to 12 cubic feet of timber) to be around Rs 1.5 lakh. Based on that, the value of the timber seized might be around Rs 3 crore.

Is teak illegal?

Since 2014, Myanmar has made it illegal to export wild teak logs like these, photographed in 2005. Half of the world’s remaining wild teak—one of the most valuable tropical hardwoods—grows in Myanmar.

Is buying teak bad?

Teak wood is generally a sustainable wood thanks to carbon sequestration and carbon storage. However, the high eco-cost of tropical forest deforestation due to teak logging and the long transporting distances make this tropical timber less sustainable than timber from more local, temperate forests.

How do I sell teak trees?

If you are a farmer and want to sell your teak wood you need to take TREE FELLING PERMISSION from forest department. Once you get permission you can go to any wood merchant or even visit forest department marketing board to get the list of wood merchant of teak wood.

How long does it take to grow a teak tree?

Teak is one of the faster growing tropical hardwoods (half an inch per day), still, it takes 20 to 25 years to grow into ONE mature tropical tree to final harvest.

How much is a teak tree worth?

Is teak wood legal?

Our teak comes from legal plantations. This tropical hardwood (called Tectona Grandis) cannot survive in the jungle. The tree grows in dry and hilly terrains, in Southeast Asia. To keep up sustainability, teak farming is now regulated. The hardwood used in furniture comes from tree farms.