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Sabah, China, the Philippines, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Whilst there remain
many unsolved problems concerning the cultivation of rattan, over 20,000ha of
plantations have been established in Malaysia alone.
In many areas of SE Asia, the large-scale cultivation of rattan has concentrated on:
· The development of plantation systems with the use of a parent tree crop
(rattan is a climber than needs arboreal support). Rubber (Hevea brasiliensis)
has been predominantly used, but latterly a wider variety of tree crops have
been experimented with. The majority of the commercial cultivation schemes
favour this type of cultivated system.
· Enrichment planting with rattan after logging in secondary forest. Rattan is
planted and maintained in logged-over lowland Dipterocarp forest.
Figure 124. Three-year old planting of Calamus merrillii with parent crop of five-year old Albizia
falcata in Sabah, Malaysia.
It is important to note, however, that many of these plantations and cultivated sources
of cane are owned and managed by sovereign forestry departments or private
companies. Hence, the revenues accrued do not often find their way to local
communities at it would if they were harvesting directly from their own agroforestry
systems. In many ways, commercial cultivation leads to the removal of a resource
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