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Asia Plantation Capital Patchouli Oil Awarded Premium Grade

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Asia Plantation Capital has been establishing sustainable, organic, Patchouli oil production on its plantations for the last year. Patchouli oil is drawn out from the leaves of the seasonal patchouli bush (which grows back) enabling the leaves to be gathered, sustainably, every 3 to 4 months. The recent harvest and production of Patchouli oil, by Asia Plantation Capital, on its plantations in Sri Lanka has actually been accredited as superior grade by independent analysts at the Industrial Technology Institute (ITI), Colombo. When analysed through mass spectrometry by the ITI, samples of our oil checked positive for the major compounds of Patchouli oil.

Of these compounds, Patchouli alcohol is the main constituent which figures out the quality of the oil. As a result, the rate of the Patchouli oil highly depends upon the ratio of Patchouli alcohol present in the oil. Spectrometry results plainly suggest the high material of patchouli oil (0.53 %) and patchouli alcohol (54.56 %) in the oil sample which was taken after the purification process. A patchouli alcohol material of over 30 % is considered excellent quality.

These results reveal that the cultivation of patchouli for business oil extraction in Sri Lanka is a sensible proposal. This is a substantial development for Asia Plantation Capital in Sri Lanka. We already cultivate Patchouli in Thailand and are now tailoring up to follow our success in the production of high quality Oud oil with big scale production of Patchouli; for Sri Lanka, this can be especially useful as it can produce a new, high quality crop to enhance exports and the rural economy.

Lalith Ganlath, Attorney for Asia Plantation Capital in Colombo, states, “It’s a pleasure to see the effort of the Sri Lankan, Asia Plantation Capital team settling in Sri Lanka, on the back of plantation jobs which the Company operates in other parts of South East Asia, and assisting to contribute research and innovation to the nation’s agricultural export markets. I am really eager to aid promote this job and motivate out-growers to cultivate the Patchouli, which can enter into their existing agroforestry earnings. It will certainly also assist maximise land use and returns for rural farmers, with Asia Plantation Capital concurring to purchase back the dry leaves which can be harvested every 3 months.”.

Asia Plantation Capital currently has its own distribution offices, retail shops and warehouses in the Middle East, Europe, Asia and the USA, supplying the industry. It is well set to end up being a significant provider of sustainable Patchouli oil, traceable to the source of production– Patchouli oil is among the most widely used oils in the international Fragrance market and has a forecast market value of over $46 billion in 2018 (Source: Industry Analyst’s Inc.). Surprisingly, Patchouli oil is among the couple of natural important oils which can not be recreated in any high quality, synthetically, for use in perfumes; making the demand for this outstanding oil relatively ensured.

Over the next year, the Company intends to establish over 5,000 acres of Patchouli fields making use of a mix of their own lands in South East Asia and out grower plans in Sri Lanka, Thailand and Malaysia. All production for the plantations will be supplied with Certificate of Origin, Certificate of Analysis (CofA), Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) for exports and Flow of Processing and Product Specification. In addition, the oil will certainly be packaged under the Group’s perfume brand, “Fragrance Du Bois” and branded, “Patchouli Du Bois” as an additional stamp of ensured quality — which has been an essential to the success in worldwide marketing the Company’s other important oils such as Oud (agarwood) and likewise infected wood chips.

Notes to Editors:.
About Asia Plantation Capital.
Asia Plantation Capital is an owner and operator of a varied variety of commercial plantation and farming companies across the Asia-Pacific area; globally, it is part of the Asia Plantation Capital Group of associated business. Established officially in 2008 (although operating independently considering that 2002) the group now has plantation and agricultural tasks on four continents, with functional tasks at various phases in Thailand, Malaysia, China, Laos, India, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Mozambique, The Gambia, North America and Europe.
Promoting the use of certified wood is the very best method of preventing deforestation, protecting biodiversity and combatting poverty in the tropical rainforest regions. For the yachting sector, which strives for quality and which is already included in ecological efforts, this is also a method of ensuring that no wood from unlawful logging is utilized.

UN’s recognition of Agroforestry welcomed by Asia Plantation Capital

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Asia Plantation Capital welcomes the UN’s acknowledgment of Agroforestry as integral to international green development. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has required Agroforestry and Agriculture to be scaled approximately attend to food deficiency and help aid the challenge of climate change.

The diversity among crops of plantation trees with intercropping of fruit, veggie and other resource & consumable crops is viewed as a practical procedure to use land, maintain and enhance soil nutrition, boost food supply and aid address rural poverty, lack of nutrition and local financial development. These sensible words at the Third Global Conference on Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Security and Environment Change held just recently in Johannesburg, rated by Asia Plantation Capital.

Barry Rawlinson, CEO of Asia Plantation Capital, commented how “at Asia Plantation Capital we entire heartedly support this UN backed initiative. As an expert plantation business running in some economically challenged backwoods across Southeast Asia we have actively sort-out practical intercropping and supplementary food production opportunities. In Northeast Thailand for example banana includes greatly as an intercrop throughout the early life of both Teak and Aquilaria tree plantations, and we also motivate our regional plantation managers to grow veggie and salad crops for their own and extended family requirements.”.

This important occasion was arranged collectively by the Governments of South Africa and the Netherlands and partially funded by the World Bank and the UN FAO. Prominent institutions representing a global approach to increase climate-smart and sustainable farming practices, in addition to to fuel green development.

Natural Resource Management is a core issue for Asia Plantation Capital. Their in-house proficiency not just covers plantation management & forestry skills on their developed operations in Thailand & Sri Lanka, with their growth into other countries they have included internal forest auditing and are in negotiation with strategic universities to broaden their Forestry R&D Partnerships into wider research on the financial benefits and social effect of agroforestry.

“We have seen how our method of grouping speciality plantations into clusters has provided a far higher financial improvement to regional neighborhoods than the previous practice of spreading operations across a far broader location. It is now our intention to determine this favorable impact so we can share credible understanding of social & financial modifications & advantages with our own stakeholders, academic community and the larger green development community, along with for more information ourselves and tweak our practices and approach as needed” mentioned Barry Rawlinson.

Sustainability is identified as a really complex subject. With the agriculture and agroforestry sectors it is the circulation and exchange of proficiency by downscaling worldwide climate designs and combining this with grassroots understanding and competence that is commonly accepted as one of the basic building blocks in the development of positive development recommendations and policies. Asia Plantation Capital sees their organisation as embedded in this useful international proces.

Barry Rawlinson, CEO of Asia Plantation Capital, commented how “at Asia Plantation Capital we whole heartedly support this UN backed effort. In Northeast Thailand for example banana showcases heavily as an intercrop throughout the early life of both Teak and Aquilaria tree plantations, and we also encourage our regional plantation managers to grow veggie and salad crops for their own and prolonged household requirements.”.

Asia Plantation Capital sees their organisation as embedded in this useful worldwide process

Asia Plantation Tree Owners Have Actually Taken Pleasure In Returns Of Approximately 498 %

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Barry Rawlinson, CEO of Asia Plantation Capital said “We are glad  to see that after exactly what looks like a lifetime of effort on our plantations, and in certain our agarwood plantations we are starting to enjoy strong returns for tree owners. Our office agarwood collecting programme began in 2012, and much more harvests are due over the years to coming due to a mix of sustainable thinning, replanting and tree maturity.”

Additional innovations in innovation and heavy financial investment into research study and advancement are crucial factors for Asia Plantation Capital’s success in an extremely complicated market which it now leads.

Average Return On Investment:

Asia Plantation Tree owners have actually taken pleasure in returns of approximately 498 %.” This data is offered in the audited accounts of Asia Plantation Capital, it is based upon the initial rate spent for the trees by customers’ vs their yield and real payments made.

This month likewise Asia Olantation Capital sees the commissioning of a brand-new assembly line for Asia Plantation Capital, a financial investment in enhanced capability to produce many value included forestry items such as agarwood tea, boosted wood chips and speciality instilled wood powder for supply to the international incense and pharmaceutical markets.

Production of agarwood chips and tea is currently using 100 % of agarwood tree stock possessed by Asia Plantation Capital. It is of note that needs to any of these alternate market makes use of possibly provide greater returns on agarwood trees to oil production, Asia Plantation Capital will certainly can provide owners these profits sources as an extra option to oud oil.
Asia Plantation Capital’s agarwood plantations have to date supplied tree owners with returns of SG$ 2.1 million. All plantation operations have actually carried out regularly given that 2009, returns that have made Asia Plantatin Capital very proud.