Study on the improvement of copal tapping procedure at Sukabumi Forest District (Java, Indonesia)
1984
Soenarno | Idris, M.M. | Basari, Z.
Copal from agathis tree has been one of important forest products, not only as export commodity but also as raw material for some industries. In the last few years however production in this country began to decrease, due to inefficient tapping by the forest worker. Because of this reason on the tapping procedure is necessary. This report deals with a preliminary study on the present "quare" type of tapping procedure commonly adapted by the forest worker. The locality chosen was Gade Barat Sub forest district at Sukabumi West Java. Three factors were chosen for the tapping study, namely the effect of resin productivity of the location of the wound with respect to west and east direction (factor A), time of tapping (factor B) and type of wound covering (factor C). The result of this study shows that : 1. Covering of tap wound does not cause inconveniences to the worker, 2. Resin productivity is not significantly affected by the wound location, 3. The highest production of the resin per tree comes from the wound cut in the morning and covered with black coloured polyethylene sheet.
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