Harvesting of Pine Resin Using Three Tapping Techniques

Pine resin is one kind of non wood forest products (NWFP) that has passably potency and Indonesia occupies third rank in the world as a producer pine resin after China and Brazil. The good market opportunity of gondorukem pushed management of forest to increase pine resin production. This paper aims to give information about harvesting of pine resin using three tapping techniques. The tapping techniques depends on tapping tool is used, namely mujitech, drill and kedukul. The results showed that the highest production of resin was obtained from the technique using kedukul, 18.0 g/quare/collection whereas from Mujitech dan drill was 11.5 g/quare/collection and 11.2 g/quare/collection respectively. From visual observation, resin obtained by drill technique was cleaner than Mujitech and kedukul techniques. The content of impurities in pine resin that produced by drill technique was 4% on average. Nevertheless, drill tapping technique is not preferred by farmers to apply as less effective. The application of tapping techniques at a certain location were influenced by the customs of the local communities. And those customs were not easy to be changed with new technique although that can produce the tapping more than manually technique.