{"id":770,"date":"2013-05-30T08:05:48","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T02:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2013\/05\/30\/growing-demands-for-durian-wood-not-durians\/"},"modified":"2013-05-30T08:05:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T02:35:48","slug":"growing-demands-for-durian-wood-not-durians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/growing-demands-for-durian-wood-not-durians\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing demands for durian wood, not durians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sim Bak Heng<br \/>\nMUAR: Durian, the king of fruits, is being threatened by a shortage of rubber wood for the furniture industry.<br \/>\n                <!--adsense--><br \/>\nAlthough durian trees, as a source of timber, are nothing to shout about, more and more furniture makers are turning them into tables and chairs.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n And many durian growers in Johor, who were hit by low prices for durian in the past years, are chopping down the trees and selling the timber for quick profits.<\/p>\n<p> Muar Furniture Association deputy chairman Lim Su Kim said the industry was short of 10,000 tonnes of rubber wood a month.<\/p>\n<p> This, he said, was why some furniture makers were now using low-grade durian wood and other inferior material from the forests.<\/p>\n<p> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Domestic supplies of rubber wood can only meet up to 70 per cent of the industry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s needs,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Some have to be imported from Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and India at a high cost.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p> Durian wood furniture is intended for the local market as its reddish colour is not popular overseas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sim Bak Heng MUAR: Durian, the king of fruits, is being threatened by a shortage of rubber wood for the furniture industry. Although durian trees, as a source of timber, are nothing to shout about, more and more furniture makers are turning them into tables and chairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furniture-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}