Re: Sustainable Agarwood Plantation

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> Since the agarwood is now listed in CITES appendix II. People in

> Indonesia and may south eastern asia countries is on a race to plant

> and producing agarwood artificially from trees. Indonesian mycologyst

> named DR Erdhy Santoso from Bogor Institute of Agriculture had

> succeded making certain fungus mix that can make the agarwood tree

> produce resin within 1-3 years after the tree grows it's full size.

> This had already proven by y wangko from Bangka island, Bangka

> Belitung Province. He manage to export 30 tons of low grade ( 1 year

> of innoculation)/ month to Taiwan from his plantation.

Fascinating info.