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Whether planning ahead for future college tuition or for your retirement, passing increased wealth on to your children and grandchildren, or simply because you would like to have your own investment in Belize with a growing market, we would like to work with you now and in the future.

Teak, is the only species of hardwood for which sufficient published data exists to allow us to make reasonably detailed projections of potential harvests and yields.
 


Once the trees are past the age of their first
thinning, the mortality and cull loss will likely
be essentially 0%
The following chart shows our projections based on our growth rate to date. We have chosen not to place a value on our under ten year trees as these projections are based on quantity and volume that has not yet to be determined by the amount harvested at this time in Belize.


Estimated Teak Values

 Tree Age

 Number of Trees Before Harvest

 Number of Trees Harvested

 Tree Diameter - Inches

Height of Tree 

 Board Feet per Tree

 Value per Tree

 Gross Harvest Value

Total for 10 Acres 

Based on one acre of trees planted 12' spacing with approx. 400 trees
1-10 years thinning and culling approx. 50%
 10  200  80  10 30 49.04

$250
 $20,000

$200,000.00
 15  120  60  15  40  147.12

 $735
 $44,100

 $441,000.00
 20  60  30  18  45  238.41

 $1,190
 $35,700

$357,000.00
 25  20  20  20  45  294.38

 $1,471
 $29,420

 $294,200.00
These figures are based on todays board foot international figures of $5.00 a foot. These figures are very conservative
as select teak on the wholesale market has pushed as far as $14.75 a board foot.

Once the trees are past the age of their first thinning, the mortality and cull loss will likely be essentially 0% because we will have removed all of the culls in the first thinning, and if a tree is lost after the first thinning, we will simply mill it into lumber, either for your use or to be sold, as you direct.

The height and diameter growth estimates are based upon growth rates obtained in plantations in South and Central America . Our actual teak growth rates exceed these projections.

Our estimated volume per tree is arrived at by multiplying the basal area of the tree (Pi x (1/2 diameter)2) times the usable height of the tree, and then reducing the result by 35%, since a tree trunk is not a true cylinder. These projections are based upon the volume of the trunks and do not include the additional wood volume that may be obtained from the larger branches in the later harvests.

The amount of marketable wood per tree is stated in board feet, a standard measure used in the U.S. for lumber. One board foot is one foot square by one inch thick (12” x 12” x 1”). There are 12 board feet in a cubic foot of lumber and 424 board feet in a cubic meter of lumber.
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