Application of Artificial Propagation to Sustain Agarwood Tree Species inMixed-Species Plantation in Indonesia
ABSTRACT
Agarwood production has declined rapidly, due to lack of technology and limited dissemination of the inoculation technology. If no serius action to be taken, agarwood production would not be sustained. The objective of the project development was to agarwood promote and sustain agarwood production in both production natural forest and privately-owned lands to support agarwood-based industries toward sustainable forest management and forest communities‘ welfare in Indonesia. This project provided two demonstration-plots regarding the planting of agarwood-yielding tree seeds in cooperation with the forest-farmer group, which in areas each reached 72 hectares in both locations (Banten and South Kalimantan). These demonstration-plots offered benefits to the stakeholders to conduct the conservation of agarwood trees in each region. In addition, those demonstration plots for inoculation technology covered more than 2,000 agarwood-yielding trees growing in Banten, South Kalimantan, West Kalimantan, Bali, Lombok, East Nusa Tenggara, North Sulawesi, North Sumatra, Maluku, and others. Those plots provided data and information regarding effectiveness consistency in agarwood development that resulted from induction as implemented on different species of agarwood-yielding trees. Viewed from the accomplishment process of activities in agarwood-inoculation technology, these activities brought about positive impacts, economically and ecologically.
Keywords: Agarwood production, inoculation technology, microbe, mixed-plant
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