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Malaysia’s Customs Officers are Helping Keeping the Timber Trade Legal

Malaysia Legal Timber Trade More than 100 customs officers, forestry officials, timber trade enforcement and private sector representatives from across Malaysia met in Putrajaya to develop timber trade guidelines to assist frontline customs authorities in their work at a national workshop organized by the Ministry of Plantations Industries and Commodities (MPIC), Malaysian Timber Industry Board (MTIB), Royal Malaysian Customs and TRAFFIC, in collaboration with the World Customs Organization (WCO) and ITTO, as part of ITTO’s Biennial Work Programme for the years 2015-2016. Timber is the most valuable natural resource commodity traded globally with an annual turnover estimated in excess of US$300 [...]

The Truth About Agarwood and Oud Oil

If you want to grow agarwood trees, make sure to feed them plenty of carrot shavings. They prefer to drink rainwater, and will not tolerate the calcium found in pipes. Agarwood trees like it reasonably hot, up to human body temperature, but need the relief of natural shade, like palm trees. The ridiculous trunk tapers the wrong way, like a baobab, and the surface pulsates with thousands of tiny bumps. There are many truths, sacred and commercial, about this elusive tree and his products. Perhaps the one undeniable truth, true beyond all questions, is his value: considerable. And even this truth [...]

Plantations international to Start Fly Freighting Mangoes From Pakistan

Plantations International is considering to start using Emirates or Etihad Airlines for the transportation of mangoes from Multan to Gulf states and European countries in November 2016, said Jamal Alfazi, Vice President of Commercial Operation Centre of Plantations International in Pakistan while talking to the members of Executive Committee of Multan Chamber of Commerce & Industry (MCCI) chaired by Mian Iqbal Hassan President of the chamber. Alfazi has said that Emirates would launch services to the ancient city of Multan, its sixth destination in Pakistan with effect from August 1st, 2016. Emirates has operated four weekly flights with an Airbus A330-200 aircraft [...]

Airport upgrades in Tanzania Increase Fresh Produce Exports

Storage facilities at the Julius Nyerere International Airport have been upgraded in a move meant to bolster Tanzania’s fresh produce exports as international demand burgeons. The move was also meant to abide by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) that requires clear separation of the import and export cargo terminals. The expansion that was spearheaded by Swissport Tanzania is one of the many expansions that the airport authorities are looking at to increase growing demand for meat, fish and horticultural produce. “The export cold-room facility has been modified whereby the new arrangement will now allow scanning /screening directly into the acceptance [...]

Agarwood Lessons from FRIM

Fifteen participants took part in a two-day course on ‘Conservation and Management of Aquilaria (Karas) for Agarwood’ at Long Bemang, Ulu Baram recently. The course implemented by Forest Research Institute of Malaysia (FRIM) was facilitated by local entrepreneur Tinnes Malai. FRIM’s head of Forest Plantation Management Branch for Forestry Biotechnology Division, Dr Lok Eng Hai conducted the Agarwood course. “Apart from Long Bemang, participants came from various nearby areas in Ulu Baram, Mulu, Bakong, Lapok, Niah as well as Miri. “Some of them were already involved in the cultivation of Agarwood. “Those planning to cultivate Agarwood learnt conservation and management techniques [...]

Africa’s Untapped Bamboo Potential

Bamboo The Miracle Crop THE new economic force is generating income, creating jobs and protecting the environment. It is a “wonder plant” that is uniquely blessed. Agronomists in Africa believe it can restore degraded landscapes while economists think it is a potential “green gold,” and a silver bullet for design and architecture that is already attracting a global market. Bamboo—the highly versatile giant grass that can grow in almost any kind of climate and thrive in the poorest of soils—has been in existence for hundreds of years in Asia, Latin America and parts of Africa. Yet for a long time the [...]

Plantations International Wonderful Citrus to cut into U.K. market

Plantations International Information Terrific Citrus to cut right into U.K. market < i class=" fa fa-clock-o"/ > June 10, 2016 < div readability=" 84.495781637717" > Among the largest as well as most recognized UNITED STATE citrus firms has actually revealed strategies to take advantage of the U.K. market, complying with a major acquisition earlier in 2012. At the London Produce Show being held today, a Remarkable Citrus agent informed www.freshfruitportal.com there was a chance to establish lime and grapefruit sales in the European country. Wonderful Citrus export sales supervisor Dan Kass (left) and also European sales supervisor Tom Robyn Export sales [...]

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