Advantages of Growing Tissue - cultured Clonal teak plants

Teak (Tectona grandis) is a premium value hardwood species in the world due to its incomparable quality of its wood. Though, teak is commonly propagated through seeds , but it has got some limitations. In seedlings derived teak plantations, we see substantial variations in individual trees in growth as well as in quality resulting in poor yield at the time of harvest even after long rotation period. These variations are seen even from the seedlings raised from the same superior mother tree. In the present video, the viewers will come to know the reasons why they should prefer to grow tissue - cultured clonal teak plants instead of teak seedlings. This video is useful to the farmers, foresters, students, research scholars and also public in large.