KPF Can Still Produce
Teak Logs Though Banned In
Independent Mon News Agency
Local military authorities have banned the production of
teak logs in the
The military authorities has started banning the export of
teak to Thailand since the end of October, and the No. 44 Brigade military
operation has tried to clean out illegal logging in the Kyorn
Chaung logging zone, northwest of Three Pagoda Pass,
where teak was grown by a British colonel.
“The brigade soldiers lunched a military operation in the
logging zone, ordered illegal logging businessmen not to produce logs or cut
down logs and brigade soldiers are also registering teak plans,” said Min Thit Swe, a reporter.
“According to what logging businessmen told me, there are no
illegal logging workers in the zone and they stopped their jobs after being so
ordered. There's just U Maung Hlaing's
workers who joined with Daw Saw Khin, the woman who registered her company with
the Karen State Peace and Development Council,” he explained.
“Normally logging businessmen do not dare log teak. Most
people joined Karen cease-fire groups and these groups do it,” said Nai Win, a Furniture Association member in Three Pagoda
town.
“At the moment we have difficulty getting logs for our
factory because of the impact of the ban. But we have to wait and see during
the summer,” Nai Win added.
“I heard about the barred exporting, but I don’t know if we
can log or not. But at the moment my nephew has been working for teak logs,”
Major Lay War of the Three Pagoda Pass-based KPF, a Karen cease-fire group,
said.
“The KPF can work with teakwood and export it to
With the ban on the flow of teakwood, some furniture made
with teak is carried inside
Although the government barred logging companies in the
Most logging business is run illegally and both the KPF and
DKBA work with teak to export to
In southern Burma, Three Pagoda Pass was the main place where teakwood was
exported to Thailand.Because most business was run
illegally, the military government forced furniture factory owners to register
their factories as legal in September..
For further information, please contact to Independent Mon
News Agency
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