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2.6 Special Teak Plantation Programme<br />

• launched a Special Teak Plantation Programme in<br />

1998 in addition to the existing normal teak<br />

plantation programme.<br />

• The rotation is fixed at 40-year. The rotation is<br />

structure with a series <strong>of</strong> 8 consecutive phases.<br />

• Each phase, with the duration <strong>of</strong> 5 years, consists <strong>of</strong><br />

20 plantation centres.<br />

• Each centre will establish 405 ha <strong>of</strong> teak<br />

plantation annually and a total <strong>of</strong> 2,025 ha<br />

would be planted by the end <strong>of</strong> the first<br />

phase. Consequently, a total <strong>of</strong> 40,500 ha<br />

would be planted by the end <strong>of</strong> the first<br />

phase at 20 plantation centres.<br />

• Therefore, the Special Teak Plantation<br />

Programme would have completed the<br />

establishment <strong>of</strong> teak plantations over and<br />

area <strong>of</strong> 324,000 ha by the end <strong>of</strong> the 40-year<br />

rotation.<br />

Young teak plantation under<br />

special programme

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