As Tripura emerges as India’s Agarwood hub, farmers across the country are eyeing its cultivation. However, unlocking its ...

Lawmakers were urged to pass a measure that would develop a sustainable agarwood industry to boost farmers’ income while ...

Scientist Zhang Huarong walks through the forest near his Hong Kong research lab, gesturing towards a rotting incense tree ...

First-grade agarwood can cost as much as $100,000 per kilogram, making it one of the most expensive raw materials in the world. But for this tree to produce any agarwood, it must first become ...

Each year, the agarwood tree, a sought-after source of medicines and perfumes that grows in the rainforests of southwest China, needs to solve a problem. The tree’s fruits mature during the hottest ...

Assam, the nerve centre of India's agarwood industry, has been playing a crucial role in the extraction and value addition of ...

Agarwood, also known as gaharu in Malaysia, is a fragrant dark resinous wood formed in the heart of the tree trunk that is used in the production of incense, perfume and other consumer products.

In the Kingdom of Thailand, Asia Plantation Capital now owns and manages more than 1.5 million agarwood trees as part of its expanding global portfolio of over 7.5 million trees. The company has a ...

A stone’s throw from the city’s urban centre are forests home to trees that produce fragrant – and valuable – agarwood. Agarwood is used in several expensive products, from incense and ...

Agarwood is created when incense trees are cut, which causes the plant to produce a dark resin to prevent infection. The product then takes the form of fragrant resinous wood.

KUALA LUMPUR: Studies on karas trees and the production of aromatic resin known as gaharu or agarwood by researchers at universities and local research centres have reduced the issue of agarwood ...