POKOK GAHARU@AGARWOOD

BACKGROUND @ Agarwood Agarwood is a tree in the family Thymelaeceae. Mature trees will grow up to 40 meters in height and 40cm in diameter. Agarwood trees in natural forests began to produce agarwood resin at the age of 20 to 45 years, depending on the resistance of trees and tree injury response. Agarwood trees are very enthused to be able to produce a fragrant and pleasant aroma when burned kayunya.Mengikut data released in the first World Conference on agarwood in Vietnam there are 16 species of the genus Aquilaria is a high commercial value.
FOLLOWING ARE TYPES BY AGRAWOOD Ranking
1. AQUILARIA SUBINTEGRA                           Found at Thailand
2. AQUILARIA CRASSNA                                 Found at Thailand, Cambodia, Loas, Vietnam
3. AQUILARIA MALACCENSIS                       Found at Thailand, India, Indonesia
4. AQUILARIA APICULATA                             Found at Philippines
5. AQUILARIA BAILLONIL                              Found at Thailand, Combodia, Loas, Vietnam
6. AQUILARIA BANEONSIS                            Found at Vietnam
7. AQUILARIA BECCARIAN                            Found at Indonesia
8. AQUILARIA BRACHYANTHA                     Found at Malaysia
9. AQUILARIA CUMINGIANA                         Found at Indonesia, Philippines
10.AQUILARIA FILARIA                                   Found at Nuegini, China
11.AQUILARIA GRANDIFLORA                      Found at China
12.AQUILARIA HILATA                                    Found at Indonesia, Malaysia
13.AQUILARIA KHASIANA                              Found at India
14.AQUILARIA MICROCAPA                           Found at Indonesia, Malaysia
15.AQUILARIA ROSTRATA                              Found at Malaysia
16.AQUILARIA SINENSIS                                 Found at China

Breed	Growth (cm)	Encourage Agrawood Oil			Price
	Average/ 5 Years High from Ground 130cm	Good	Medium	Poor	Good	Medium	Poor
Subintegra	50-70	√			√
Crassna	20-40		√			√
Malaccensis	50-70			√			√
Baillonil	20-30			√			√

Agarwood living in lowland areas to a height of 750 m above sea level and requires rainfall and high humidity. Agarwood is used in the perfume industry, medical products, Ayurvedic medicine, religious ceremonies and so forth. 

The higher the demand for sandalwood production declined even lead to price increases every year. Most of sandalwood were exported to. contractors in Singapore, the Middle East, Hongkong and Taiwan. The price can reach up to RM14-18 thousand per kilogram for Double Super Grade.In fact, the market price for sandalwood oil is also very high at RM45 thousand / kg (method of grading the quality of timber and oil still dipiawaian and depending on the seller and buyer). Southeast Asian agarwood exports valued at RM48.3 million to Saudi Arabia and the supply meets only 20% of the market. Currently, most of the gaharu produced from forest and are very limited. Without replanting. This species will be threatened with extinction due to acquisition activity of aloes. Planting gaharu in Malaysia is still new and not popular, but in other countries such as Indonesia, Thailand and Cambodia have long cultivated. In fact, it gets very strong support from their government agencies in terms of capital and technology. Overall agarwood (stem, leaf & root) is useful and can dikomensilkan. Sandalwood tree planting carried out in accordance wasteland, save forest reserves, areas that have been explored and logging carried out in agricultural fields and forests are integrated with a variety of other crops such as herbs and plant commodities. 








* We will provide service after the trees are planted and will buy back the sandalwood trees that have matured. * With the latest technology could cut down sandalwood trees within 5-6 years, 12 months after injection (inducement) drugs, cut down trees can start to get resinnya * For an acre of land can be planted almost 1000 trees with a distance of 6-7 feet, the estimated revenue for the RM1000.00 per tree and per acre is RM1 million.