Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study: Focus on Coconut Wood













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WORKING PAPER SERIES

ASIA-PACIFIC FORESTRY TOWARDS 2010

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Working Paper No: APFSOS/WP/23

by

Romulo N. Arancon, Jr.
Assistant Director
Asian and Pacific Coconut Community

Forestry Policy and Planning Division, Rome
Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok
October 1997

The Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study is being undertaken under the auspices of the Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission.

This report comes under Workplan Number E25.4©.

This electronic document has been scanned using optical character recognition (OCR) software and careful manual recorrection. Even if the quality of digitalisation is high, the FAO declines all responsibility for any discrepancies that may exist between the present document and its original printed version.


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INFORMATION NOTE ON ASIA-PACIFIC FORESTRY SECTOR OUTLOOK STUDY

1. INTRODUCTION1

2. RESOURCE INVENTORY

Regional Overview

Magnitude of resource and potential yields
Supply

Country information

Philippines
Indonesia
India
Malaysia
Sri Lanka
Thailand
Vietnam
Federated States of Micronesia
Fiji
Papua New Guinea
Solomon Islands
Vanuatu
Western Samoa

3. USES OF COCONUT WOOD AND MARKETS

Use in construction
Use in Furniture and high-value products
Charcoal
Chemicals
Market Profile
Demand

4. ECONOMICS OF COCONUT WOOD UTILIZATION

Coconut Lumber Production

5. PROSPECTS OF COCONUT WOOD UTILIZATION AND COMMERCIALIZATION

ANNEX 1 - PALM CHARACTERISTICS RELEVANT TO UTILIZATION

ANNEX 2 - COCONUT WOOD UTILIZATION TECHNOLOGIES

ANNEX 3 - TECHNOLOGY PACKAGE CHAINSAW-TABLE SAW COCOLUMBER MANUFACTURING SYSTEM AND PRESERVATIVE TREATMENT BY SOAKING METHOD

REFERENCES

List of Working Papers already released