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Rattan products
Why the rattan products in Asia
specially in Cebu is also called "wait are while". One worker climbs up the
palm und tries to remove the shoot tangled up in other supporting trees and
plants. The harvest of rattan stems for finished furniture use, mostly done
by two men - is a arduous, sudorific and sometimes painful hand work for
rattan products set (Cebu
wicker furniture).
A second worker polls
from the ground, removes the sheets and cuts the shoot into shorter,
transportable bars with help of a bolo (long knife). Mostly, the stem could
not be harvested as one piece. There is a research (1) showing that round
about one third remains unattainable clinging in other plants. The rattan
bars (see loom furniture) are often spread with fungicides to avoid fungi. The stem lopped off at
the ground grows fast and achieves after 5-7 years its original length
perfect material for a finished rattan products exporter.
Rattan product, The Calamus
species is spread on the whole Asian archipelago; it also has the widest
economic importance.
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Rattan products,
Philippine furniture business exporter.
There are approximately existing ninety rattan
species in the Cebu Philippines, about one third is endemically, i.e. only
in the Philippines native. An investigation delivered the exporter list
result, that approx. ninety per cent of the local Calamus is taken from free
nature. This has already led to reduced population of trees nationwide. It
still remains an unanswered question if the imposed collecting restrictions
and deforestation quotas of the DENR will promote the regeneration of the
nature stock - rattan products set furniture.
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