Teak leaf is traditionally used in Java as a wrapper, including food packaging. Rice wrapped in teak leaves tasted better. An example is the famous rice from local jamblang Jamblang, Cirebon.
Leaves of teak is also widely used in Yogyakarta, Central Java and East Java as a wrapper tempeh.
Various types of insect pests of teak are also often used as a food of the villagers. Two of them are grasshoppers teak (Jw. stinky wood), a large brownish, and caterpillar-teak (Endoclita). Teak caterpillar even often considered special because of delicious food. This caterpillar was collected before the rainy season, in the morning when the caterpillars were hanging down from the tree to find a place to form a cocoon (Jw. ungkrung). Teak cocoons were also collected and eaten.
Other economic functions of the teak forests of Java If visiting the teak forests in Java, we will see that the areas that have other economic functions besides producing teak.
Many pesanggem (farmers) who lived in the village of utilizing the teak forests of teak bark as a material wall of their home. Leaves of teak, a large hairy and fall in the dry season, they are used as wrapping food and goods. Branches and twigs teak into fuel for many households in the village of teak forests.
Teak forests mainly provide arable land. On the sidelines of teak trees, farmers planted crops berbanjar-banjo. From the teak forests themselves, they can earn additional income in the form of honey, a number of sources of carbohydrate foods, and medicines.
Food substitute rice grown in the teak forests for example is yam (Dioscorea hispida) and Uwi (Dioscorea alata). In fact, teak forest villagers also use iles-iles (Ammorphophallus) at the time of famine. Plants in traditional medicines such as kencur (Alpina longa), turmeric (Curcuma domestica), ginger (Zingiber officinale), and Intersection buffoonery (Curcuma longa) is growing in this forest.Teak trees also produce flowers whitish bergugus groups that broke shortly after dawn. The period of flower pollination of teak is the best place around the middle of heart-every flower lives only along one day. Flower pollination made by many insects, but mainly by the types of bees. Therefore, residents are also frequently able to harvest the honey bee from teak forests.
Villagers teak forests in Java are also used to raise animals such as buffalo, cattle, and goats. Type of livestock requires grass as feed. Although farmers sometimes be easy to get the grass in the fields or dry, they tend to use forest land as a source of food-producing livestock. By simply releasing livestock into the forest, livestock will get various types of feed are required. The time not used by family farmers to collect grass can be used for other activities.
Leaves of teak is also widely used in Yogyakarta, Central Java and East Java as a wrapper tempeh.
Various types of insect pests of teak are also often used as a food of the villagers. Two of them are grasshoppers teak (Jw. stinky wood), a large brownish, and caterpillar-teak (Endoclita). Teak caterpillar even often considered special because of delicious food. This caterpillar was collected before the rainy season, in the morning when the caterpillars were hanging down from the tree to find a place to form a cocoon (Jw. ungkrung). Teak cocoons were also collected and eaten.
Other economic functions of the teak forests of Java If visiting the teak forests in Java, we will see that the areas that have other economic functions besides producing teak.
Many pesanggem (farmers) who lived in the village of utilizing the teak forests of teak bark as a material wall of their home. Leaves of teak, a large hairy and fall in the dry season, they are used as wrapping food and goods. Branches and twigs teak into fuel for many households in the village of teak forests.
Teak forests mainly provide arable land. On the sidelines of teak trees, farmers planted crops berbanjar-banjo. From the teak forests themselves, they can earn additional income in the form of honey, a number of sources of carbohydrate foods, and medicines.
Food substitute rice grown in the teak forests for example is yam (Dioscorea hispida) and Uwi (Dioscorea alata). In fact, teak forest villagers also use iles-iles (Ammorphophallus) at the time of famine. Plants in traditional medicines such as kencur (Alpina longa), turmeric (Curcuma domestica), ginger (Zingiber officinale), and Intersection buffoonery (Curcuma longa) is growing in this forest.Teak trees also produce flowers whitish bergugus groups that broke shortly after dawn. The period of flower pollination of teak is the best place around the middle of heart-every flower lives only along one day. Flower pollination made by many insects, but mainly by the types of bees. Therefore, residents are also frequently able to harvest the honey bee from teak forests.
Villagers teak forests in Java are also used to raise animals such as buffalo, cattle, and goats. Type of livestock requires grass as feed. Although farmers sometimes be easy to get the grass in the fields or dry, they tend to use forest land as a source of food-producing livestock. By simply releasing livestock into the forest, livestock will get various types of feed are required. The time not used by family farmers to collect grass can be used for other activities.