The documents are from the official website of Forestry Industrial Organization of Thailand
The Teak is wood that has the most famous of the world. There is the confirmed evidence of teak exploitation in Egypt, Persia, India and Chinese more than two thousand five hundred years. Dr.Amnuay Khorwanit, Director of Forestry Organization, wrote the article about the teak in 1987 in a part that he has a chance to meet Dr.Santerman, Raibeck University Instructor, Federal Puplic of Germany, in ten past years (in 1968). Dr.Santerman has him to see the small wood kept in the test tube, this piece of wood was found in the cave of Puna town, India, it is a piece of teak from the ancient alter created in the lifetime of the Buddha, aged 2000 years more. Dr.Santerman gave the pensee that teak may be the first type of a pair of cotyledon occurred in era before history and having the evolution of survival until now. In Thailand has the evidence found of using the teak according to the constructions which is the building and temple since Ayutthaya, Lanna until Rattanakosin in the Bangkok Metropolis found that many buildings constructed in era of Rattanakosin using the teak log put to alternate each other as the tier of root base to carry the weight of the building. Besides Myanmer where is origin of the teak as well as Thailand, having the discovery using the teak to create the construction since the ancient era by digging the Royal Palace of King Burengnong of Hong Sawadee in duration of digging it is only hill. It appeared that the Royal Palace created by the teak was the structure of the building. Later, it was fired, some teaks inscribed the character stated the city's name of dependency as per the position of a direction of that city, by having a vicinity stated that it is a hall of Her Royal Princess Suphankanlaka while staying in Hong Sawadee, it is still a wooden post stated that it is old and has a clue of fire clearly.
The teak is big-sized plant, as mixed forest of shed leaves nature, having the height not exceed 900 m from sea level, growing in a plain and the slope of a hill, the most suitable condition of the teak will be the vicinity of the slope of a hill which drain well, loam sandy, having limestone mixed, average temporary approximately 20-25 0C. and average rain quantity per year 1,000-1,200 mm.. The natural teak found that it is distributed in the region of Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, India and Indonesia. The fame of the teak cause of taking the seed of the origin teak to grow in the general tropical forest or although the teak to be like that is natural in Indonesia believed that it results from Dutch brought the seeds from Indochina region to distribute more 400 years ago. It we compare the quality, it is still different. The peak of the teak in this world has Myanmar and Thailand only is excellent. In the past time, Thailand once export the teak, the world market well accepted Thai teak.
But at present Myanmar is a country export the most of natural teak, 2-3 hundred thousand cubic meter each year. Our Thailand import from Myanmar almost one hundred thousand cubic meter each year. Therefore, Myanmar receive a gold medal by implication.
Try on comparing the Thai teak with the Myanmar teak
closely, at the end of articles have the information about the quality of
physical Thai teak and Myanmar teak, are shown. We can see that it is not much
different or we bring teak from other resources to examine, it will get the
solution in the same way. The things which are different; are
the quality of the grain of wood and the color of
wood, they are used for doing in various ways of utensils. Myanmar has a high
grade of gold teak in Pegu, the northern part of the capital city "Rangoon" up.
Comparing the map in the same region with the side which is opposite of Mae Hong
Sorn and Tak Province in Thailand. They are the great top hit of Thai teak.
Myanmar has teak with a lot of qualities and the color is the same as Thai teak,
but it is not divided in the proper name, it is only told us wide, the teak
grows up in each place, the color may be different, it's up to the
characteristic of the surface of the
countries.
The
point of the division of kind teak of Thailand is divided into categories which
are not in accordance with the grain of wood. Gold teak has the yellow gold
color which is well known standard, the Thai people know well, evacuated buffalo
Teak has the dark color and the grain of wood is less harder than the gold teak.
The color of soft herbaceous stalk of teak is Youk Teak rather pale yellow
cream. The grain of wood is young, it is the teak which grows in vicinity of
high damp. Next it is the Khai teak, the grain of wood will have Khai Teak,
gummy a lot. During sawing we feel tight, the grain of wood is hard
beautiful-decorated because it is gummy. Besides the teak which haslong black
strips and narrow round among the year round of wood, it is called the teak with
long black
strips.
You can
guess and have an imagination the grain of wood with bright gold is cut out of
the natural black teak, how beautiful it is!. In the past the foreign markets
especially Wenia wood very much favored the long black strips teak. The Thai
teak is famous because the big teak tree, the tallest in the world, has been
grown up in Thailand for years in Uttaradit province, we can measure around the
big teak tree is approximately 9.40 meters, 40 meters
high.
The
quality of teak has to continue expending the passage more, all over the world
has accepted the best teak in Southeast Asia, especially Myanmar and Thailand,
try on looking for the geographical would map, it is identified to have the
narrow range, passes through the southern part of China, it starts from the
northern part of Laos with Myanmar in the middle part which is next to Thailand
and passes beyond the northern part of Thailand to the sea and lands again in
India. The lines are said in the
world map on latitude 14 north degree, are in the vicinity of teak which grows
up by nature, and it is the original resource of the best teak in the would.
Teak which is brought to grow in various parts of the world, can grow up well.
Some parts might grow up more quickly than the original places, however the
quality of the grain of wood is different from the original places. The
comparative quality of the teak forest grown, in Thailand, Africa and South
America five years ago was held the rule of the beauty of the color teak and the
quality of the grain of wood when bringing to make furniture or various
utensils. The resolution appears that the teak forest which is grown in
Thailand, has the color and the quality near the natural teak
forest.
Things
which we can see clearly, are the grain of wood Thai Teak, fresh and soft, not
rough like other agricultural or gummy (Other places don't have) and the causes
of teak which grows up and has different quality, the academic persons gave the
reasons that the climate and the landscape scenery are different, it looks as if
it were common. many kinds of teak forest were grown in the native origins, they
got the same grain of wood, some kinds have the ratio of better growing up and
can keep the quality of the grain of wood, so the case of teak should have a lot
of answers more than the hypothesis at the beginning. There was a police officer
in the past, said, the original resource of natural teak in the section of
Indochina, is the best teak in the world. Besides it is good climate and the
influence of winter wind from Siberia passes by, this is the nature which gives
the people in special
domicile.
From
the above of hypothesis, what a pity!. The government hasn't seen the value yet.
Some countries which are not comfortable to grow the teak, because of a lot of
rain, they have the people encourage growing teak, national level project, with
the easy reason is any teak can grow, it will be teak. Thailand should use the
advantage of nature, identify the region which is the origin of teak, to be the
region for encouraging and growing the forest. The government should support and
inspire to the agricultures in order to get the income to earn their living.
Growing the forest is the long-period capital. The grower of have no income be
fine keeping the products.
We can see that it Thailand in the future has a large area of teak in the region of the winter wind from Siberia passed by the vicinity of thousands of thousands, millions of million rai, these will be natural golden resources, and can make the happiness for Thai people and the usefulness of the natural environment and the value of economics which we cannot evaluate.