Contents: Foreword. Preface. I. Status of teak in producer countries: 1. Teak in India: status, prospects and perspectives/R.P.S. Katwal. 2. Quality timber products from Teak through sustainable forest management in Maharashtra state, India/M.G. Gogate, K. Subramanian, Tasnim Ahmad and S. Bhagat. 3. A report on Teak in Madhya Pradesh with technical analysis/P.B. Gangopadhyay. 4. Status of Teak in Andhra Pradesh, India/P.S. Rao. 5. Teak in Karnataka state, India/P.J. Dilip Kumar. 6. Status report of Teak in Tamil Nadu, India/J.C. Kala, G. Kumaravelu and N. Krishnakumar. 7. Teak in Kerala state, India: past, present and future/Nagesh Prabhu. 8. Ups and downs of Teak forest management in Indonesia/Sadhardjo Siswamartana. 9. Current status of Teak in Thailand/Somyos Kijkar. 10. Growing Teak in Malaysia/B. Krishnapillay, M.A.A. Razak and T.H. Ong. 11. Development of teak plantations in Ghana: propagation, processing, utilization and marketing/A.A. Oteng-amoako and Dora Sarfo. 12. Teak in Brazil: overview of plantations, know-how, expertise and market/Sylvio De Andrade Coutinho. 13. Advancements in management and productivity of Teak in Central America/Luis Ugalde Arias. 14. Teak in Trinidad and Tobago/Seepersad Ramnarine and Seuram Jhilmit. 15. Role of Teak (tectona grandis L.f.) in conserving the biodiversity of Nepal/Swoyambhu Man Amatya. 16. Teak in Sri Lanka: resource base, issues and challenges/K.P. Ariyadasa. 17. Teak in the European Union/A. Van Ittersum. 18. Status of Teak (Tectona Grandis L.f.) plantations in Bangladesh/M.K. Bhuiyan, M.A.U. Mridha, M.N. Haque and M.F. Akhter. II. Sustainable forest management with reference to teak: 1. Sustainable management of Teak forests in Myanmar/Saw Eh Dah. 2. Malaysian experiences in Timber certification/Chew Lye Teng. 3. Certification and labelling of Teak wood products with special reference to opportunities and challenges in India/K. Satyanarayana Rao. 4. Are intensive Teak plantations in agroforestry practices environmentally and ethically sound?/Sunil Puri. 5. An appraisal of teak farmers' woodlots in Sri Lanka and the relevant management strategies/A.N.S. Baminiwatte. 6. Soil conditions and growth of teak in successive rotations in Kerala state, India/M. Balagopalan, P. Rugmini and K.C. Chacko. 7. Sustainable teak plantations in the tropics: the question of nutrient management/B. Mohan Kumar. 8. Teak and its canopy parasite dendrophthoe-water relations and ecophysiology/Jose Kallarackal, C.K. Somen and N. Rajesh. 9. Storage and flux of organic carbon in Tectona grandis plantations of moist deciduous region/Kaushalendra Kumar Jha. 10. Effect of moisture conservation methods and fertilizers on nutrient uptake in two-year-old teak (Tectona grandis L.f.) plantation/A.G. Koppad and R.V. Rao. 11. Non-wood forest product resource in teak plantations and moist deciduous forests: a comparative study in Thrissur forest division, Kerala/N. Sasidharan and M. Sivaram. III. Quality timber products of teak from sustainable forest management: 1. Qualities of teak and some policy issues/C. Chandrasekharan. 2. Quality concerns of sustainable teak wood chain/K.M. Bhat. 3. High input plantations of costa rica/Luis Diego Perez Cordero and Markku Kanninen. 4. Some wood quality issues in planted teak/Takashi Okuyama, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Imam Wahyudi, Yusuf Sudo Hadi and K.M. Bhat. 5. Myanmar teak: quality and exports/Myint Kyu Pe. 6. Assessment of some wood characteristics of teak of Brazilian origin/R. Polato, P.B. Laming and R. Sierra-alvarez. 7. Characterisation and extension of Juvenile wood in plantation-grown teak (tectona grandis L.f.) from Ghana/H.G. Richter, H. Leithoff and U. Sonntag. 8. Teak production, processing and utilization in Nigeria/Abel O. Olorunnisola. 9. Is deoxylapachol, the allergenic agent in teak, a potential threat?/Maruli Humala Simatupang. 10. Timber value of teak grown in Homesteads: some observations from Kerala State, India/P.K. Thulasidas and K.M. Bhat. 11. Effects of growth rate on surface growth stress and residual stress in some tropical timber species/H. Yamamoto, T. Okuyama, I. Wahyudi and Y.S. Hadi. 12. Impact of biodeterioration on timber quality of teak in Karnataka/O.K. Remadevi and R. Veeranna. 13. Heartwood and natural decay resistance in plantation grown teak (tectona grandis L.f.) from Togo, West Africa/Adzo Dzifa Kokutse, Alexia Stokes, Henri  Bailleres, Christine Baudasse and Kouami Kokou. 14. Wood anatomical basis for the production of good quality teak stumps/R.P. Girija Pushpom and E.V. Anoop. 15. Variation in volume and dimensions of ray of teak grown in Bangladesh/Md. Mustafizur Rahman, Shinji Fujiwara, Yasuhiko Hirakawa and Yasushi Kanagawa. IV. Genetic aspects of teak wood production: 1. Genetic aspects of quality teakwood plantations/Erik D. Kjaer. 2. RAPD variation in Indian teak populations and its implications for breeding and conservation/A. Nicodemus, B. Nagarajan, C. Narayanan, M. Varghese and K. Subramanian. 3. Molecular characterization of teak seed sources using RAPD's/K.T. Parthiban, C. Surendran, M. Paramathma and K. Sasikumar. 4. Fertility variation and dynamics of two clonal seed orchards of teak/Mohan Varghese, A. Nicodemus and B. Nagarajan. 5. Why teak seed orchards are low productive?/E.P. Indira. 6. Causes for low fruit production in clonal seed orchards of teak (tectona grandis L.f.): a special reference to India/Rajesh P. Gunaga and R. Vasudeva. 7. Peculiar trees of teak at Nilambur, Kerala/H.D. Kulkarni. 8. TEAKDIV - Developing know-how for the improvement and sustainable management of teak genetic resources/Andrew Lowe, Samantha Davies, Hugo Volkaert, Jongkon Cheua-ngam, E.P. Indira, M. Balasundaran, Sudarsono, Endah R. Palupi, Hubert Wellendorf, Elsie Skov, Dominique Van Der Straeten and Madan Shrestha. 9. Variation in non-flowering nature among teak (tectona grandis L.f.) clones in seed orchards/Rajesh P. Gunaga and R. Vasudeva. 10. Variation in germination and early vigour among half-sib families of teak (tectona grandis) clones of Karnataka/John Mathew and R. Vasudeva. 11. Seed source evaluation in teak (tectona grandis L.f.)/M. Paramathma, K.T. Parthiban, C. Surendran and K. Sasikumar. V. Clonal propagation and genetic improvement: 1. Teak tissue culture for improved productivity/R.S. Nadgauda, S.V. Kendurkar and V.M. Kulkarni. 2. Selection and propagation of superior teak for quality improvement in plantations: case study of the Icsb/cirad-foret joint project/D.K.S. Goh, D. Alloysius, J. Gidiman, H.H. Chan, B. Mallet and O. Monteuuis. 3. Tissue culture strategies for quality planting stock production of teak/R. Yasodha,  R. Sumathi and K. Gurumurthi. 4. Clonal propagation of plus trees of teak and field performance of ramets/T. Surendran and J.K. Sharma. 5. Clonal propagation technology for teak for production of improved planting stock/K. Palanisamy, K. Gireesan and Maheshwar Hegde. 6. Implications of clonal variation in reproductive traits to the improvement of teak (tectona grandis L.f.)/R. Vasudeva, Rajesh Gunaga and M. Hanumantha. 7. Early detection of mislabelled teak clones using glutamate oxaloacetate transaminase (got) marker/Iskandar Z. Siregar, U.J. Siregar and S. Siswamartana. 8. Clonal propagation of tectona grandis L.f. by leafy stem cuttings: effects of branch position and Auxin treatment on rooting ability/Azamal Husen and Mohinder Pal. 9. Improved techniques for raising nursery stock in teak/Siddappa Kannur, K.V. Devar and Ramesh Rathod. 10. Teak (tectona grandis L.f.) biotechnology: developments and prospects/Parag M. Dhakate, Girish S. Bakade, Manjunath R. Chavan and S. Sasikumar. VI. Health for cultivated  teak: 1. Pest factor in the intensification of teak cultivation-a global assessment/K.S.S. Nair. 2. Tree health of teak in central part of India/Jamaluddin. 3. Disease problems and their management in teak root trainer nurseries in Kerala, India/C. Mohanan, N. Ratheesh, Laya P. Nair and Rajesh Kumar. 4. Clonal variation in the incidence of phytophagous insects - some thoughts on divergence of teak/O.K. Remadevi, Raja Muthukrishnan and Y.B. Srinivasa. 5. Productivity of teak stands in Kerala: role of arbuscular mycorrhizal association and diversity of AM fungi/C. Mohanan and K.K. Sheeba. 6. Status of colonization and spore population of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in tectona grandis L.f. from Bangladesh/P.P. Dhar and M.A.U. Mridha. 7. Significance of micronutrients on the growth of teak seedlings/M.P. Sujatha. VII. Growth, wood formation and productivity: 1. Some characteristics of wood formation in teak (tectona grandis) with special reference to water conditions/Tadashi Nobuchi, Naoki Okada, Masato Nishida, Somkid Siripatanadilok, Teera Veenin, Togar L. Tobing and Mohd. Hamami Sahri. 2. A dendrochronological study of teak (tectona grandis L.f.) in Puerto rico/Margaret S. Devall and Bernard R. Parresol. 3. Investigations on inheritance of growth and wood properties and their interrelationships in teak/A.K. Mandal and P.H. Chawhaan. 4. Assessment of growth rate, basic density and heartwood content in selected teak clones of CSO, Thithimathi, Karnataka/R. Vijendra Rao and S. Shashikala. 5. Optimal management of teak plantations/Kadiroo Jayaraman and Boris Zeide. 6. Stand level radial growth rate pattern reveals 'growth convergence' in tectona grandis L.f./A.N. Arun Kumar and Y.B. Srinivasa. 7. Effect of soil-leaf nutritional factors on the productivity of teak (tectona grandis L.f.) in Kerala state, India/M. Vimal, K. Sudhakara, K. Jayaraman and C. Sunanda. 8. A preliminary sandy on growing teak in a study area in Malaysia: a fertilizing trail/F.Y. Tsan, T.H. Ong, M. Mazlan and L.H. Ang. 9. Influence of water stress on teak (tectona grandis L.f.) seedlings/N. Rajesh and P.K. Ashokan. 10. Growth and vigour of nursery seedlings of teak (tectona grandis L.f.) in response to input of organic wastes/K. Gopikumar and Mini Chandran. VIII. Economics of teak plantations and policy issues: 1. Cultivation of teak (tectona grandis L.f.) in farmlands of different agro-climatic zones in Tamil Nadu: an analysis of ecological and economic factors/S. Saravanan, M. George and C. Buvaneswaran. 2. Prospects and potential of growing teak in Punjab state, India/R.S. Dhanda and D.S. Sidhu. 3. Economics of teak plantations in Kerala state, India/P. Indira Devi, Saju Varghese, Manoj Kumar and V.S. Pratheesh. 4. Current status, future prospects, economics and policy issues for teak (tectona grandis) investments by NABARD/M.S. Haque. 5. Optimal rotation of teak production: tools for economic analysis/A.H.M. Mustain Billah. 6. Should forest encroachers be evicted? a new way of looking at sustainable production of teak timber in Kerala state, India/K.P. Ouseph. 7. Teak wood farming: a success story from Karnataka state, India/ K. Suresh Kumar Koodur and K. Monappa Karkera. IX. Teak timber trade and wood industry: 1. Teak trade in India/R.T. Somaiya. 2. Future trends in the availability of teak wood from forest plantations in Kerala state, India/M. Sivaram and C.N. Krishnankutty. 3. Processing technology for value-added products of teak from Small and Medium Sized Entrepreneurs (SME's) of developing countries/Peter Ebdon. 4. Development of teak plantation industry in North Queensland, Australia/Andrew Radomiljac, Craig Anderson and Tony Sturre. X. Institutions, investments and networking: 1. The importance of quality in teak plantations/Raymond M. Keogh. 2. Transformation of tropical forestry starts with teak/Karl van Koppen. XI. Report on the conference: 1. International Conference on Quality Timber Products of Teak from Sustainable Forest Management, 2-5 December 2003, KFRI, Kerala, India: a report/K.M. Bhat and J.K. Sharma. List of participants. Author index. Subject index.