The Teak Center was established to develop genetically improved teak planting stock with the end objective of increasing the productivity of Perhutani’s teak forest plantations in particular and those of other teak growers interested in using improved teak planting stock produced by Perhutani. Perhutani is an Indonesian Government Agency that has a duty and the authority for forest planning, management, and preservation as well as forest commercial activities.
For this purpose, the Teak Center has developed both short and long-term teak improvement programs. To support this great responsibility the availability of adequate resources is of paramount importance.
To implement its formulated policy and strategy, Perhutani has been carrying out a range of activities including the following –
- Increasing the productivity of its teak plantations by using improved planting material in combination with improved silviculture techniques. These include –
- Improvement of the company’s revenue by optimizing the land utilization.
- Local Community empowerment.
- Use of genetically improved teak planting stocks.
- Developing agribusiness and other activities to optimize the utilization of forest land and to reduce the disturbance of teak plantation.
- Implementing out-grower partnership schemes in teak planting.
- Improving the capability of the Teak Center in the development of JPP.
Tissue Culture Laboratory
The laboratory of tissue culture produces tissue cultured plantlets of selected clones. The advantages of using cultured planting stocks include –
- Capturing genetic gain obtained from tree improvement programs quickly and efficiently
- Avoiding the difficulty of propagating certain genotypes conventionally
- Increasing the multiplication rate of propagation
Nursery
A modern nursery facility is available in the teak center. Planting materials from tissue cultured plantlet, rooted cutting and seedling, are raised for a certain period of time in the nursery before they are ready for outplanting.
Hedge Garden
The existing hedge garden in the Teak Center was established using material from selected plus trees. The hedge garden provides rejuvenated shoots for developing rooted shoot cutting.
