Melia Dubia

Melia Dubia is the fatest growing species among varieties in the universe. The wood is used for packing cases, cigar boxes, ceiling planks, building purposes, agricultural implements, pencils, math boxes, splints and catamarans. In Srilanka, it is employed for outriggers of boats. It is suitable for musical instruments, tea boxes and the most importantly in making plywood, as the wood is anti-termite by itself.

One of the major problem in today's agriculture is reducing income year by year. The land values are increased and income from agriculture is reduced due to increased cost for labors, increase in cost of cultivation and increase in transportation cost. Because of that farmers are selling land and looking for other business. So we need to think of good income from agriculture by reducing labors and increasing yield.

Melia Dubia is one of the fast growing tree and give good returns. It can be used in match or biomass or plywood industries. After 3 years, 30-40 tons of biomass/acre can be harvested upto 10 years. The price of wood per ton is rs 2000-4000. so one can get minimum revenue of 2000*30 = rs 60000/acre every year.

Cultivation Method :- The melia dubia cultivation is very familier among all farmers & public. Really the melia dubia is very fine tree variety in India. Melia dubia is the very fast growing variety in the universe without adopting any high technology. The ordinary seedling is enough for cultivation. The major drawback of the melia dubia is the germination. The seeds are very hard nuts like Rudraksha. So the melia dubia will takes minimu 2-4 months for germination. But its not believable. This is true and also the melia dubia seeds will not erminate at once or at a streth. If we put some thousands of seeds we will get some 100 seeds will get germinated So we cannot get thousands of seedlings. The melia dubia plant grow very fast. This plant attain the DBH on completion of 6 eyars minimum 100 cms maximum of 165 cms. The density of the tree will be 330Kg/Cubic meter. The melia dubia is very opt for biomas energy product. The caloric reading will be recorded as 5100 calories.