Log trading increasing in Three Pagoda
Independent Mon News Agency
February 14, 2005
Log trading is increasing and more than 100 tons of
logs per day are imported into
Three Pagoda according
to a logging businessman.
"About ten 10-wheel trucks carrying logs reach Three
Pagoda every day. Most of our
trucks carry logs from
the Tha Byuud area about 80 kilometers northeast of
Three Pagoda which has good logs," said Nai Thin Htwe,
a businessman who logs there.
"We produced more logs compared to last year.
Just
last month the log trade became a
business and started
to run well. It has a great price
and Thai customers
need a lot of "parkay" (short timber)," said U Maung
Hlaing, the biggest logging
business owner in Three
According to businessmen who have run the business
more than 10 years, the log price
reached 8,000 baht
per ton and 19,000 baht per ton of
ready-made short
timber 4 inches wide and 1 inch
thick. which was 6,000
baht per ton of logs and
16,000 baht per ton of
timber in 2004.
"Most of the logs brought from the logging zone made
"parkay"
timber for sale. The customers also wanted it
very much," U Maung Hlaing explained.
According to furniture factory owners, chairs, sofas
and others furniture is on sale.
"If we make dosanarn,
a kind of chair that looks like
a cart wheel has
benefit. All of the products we
make such as chairs
are accepted by all the
customers," said Nai Win, a
furniture factory owner.
The price of logs and timber in Three Pagoda has not
decreased before because of
difficulty getting logs or
because of fewer logs, according to
the logging
businessmen. The expense of
logging is cheaper than
the cost of transporting logs,
according to Nai Thin
Htwe. "The cost of carrying a ton of logs from
Tha-Byuud is 3,500 baht," he
said.
According to an environmental worker and resident, the
loss from logging around Three
Pagoda has left it
bare, impacting weather in the area.
"In the past year during the night time here it was
cold. But now it is hot day and night," U Min Aung
told his friends at a teashop.
According to a Mae Htos Sa villager on the way to Tha
Byuud, the village has less water
where they had
enough in the past. "In
the past 10 years, we could
travel by boat all the time in the
we can't travel in the summer time
because there are
less trees to maintain water and
nourish the soil,"
said Nai Saryar Januu, a local
environmental worker
from Earth Rights International.
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