Agarwood Tree, a Tree with various Benefits and an Expensive Price

Agarwood belongs to the genus aquilaria in marquense type This wood is generally dark black and contains resin in the sapwood or circle in the wood This resin content is what makes wood Agarwood has a special fragrant aroma and calming so that agarwood widely used as a fragrance room for incense or materials cosmetics Burning agarwood is a tradition long time for Middle Eastern people as a room freshener.

Middle Eastern people like fragrant aroma emitted from the wood agarwood when burned apart from being a wood freshener agarwood in various countries such as in Japan China and America made as a raw material for the cosmetic industry This many uses make wood This rarity has high economic value fantastic agarwood with good quality can be priced at up to tens of millions per kg.

In this article Technological engineering will invite you to see the process agarwood cultivation in Asia Two besides being known by the name of the agarwood tree This tree is also known as agarwood Besides agarwood too known as the world of the gods due to high market demand and long process of wood production in produces a fragrant resin harrow wood prices continue to soar but in some farmers in Asia.

They trying to speed up the harvest of aloes by infecting trees with microbes so that trees respond with produce resin faster you need to know not every tree agarwood has agarwood sapwood sapwood refers to the part of the tree agarwood that secretes and has smell good Agarwood plants are classified into the type plants that are easy to cultivate and Can grow on various types of soil things to note are This plant cannot tolerate waterlogged land Even so, agarwood plants can grow fertile at high 0-1000 200 meters above sea level Agarwood cultivation activities begin by getting tree seeds agarwood tree can be propagated by generative way, namely by means of sowing tree seeds.

Two but agarwood farmers in general buy tree seeds from farmers trusted to grow seeds agarwood tree from tissue culture for ensure you get quality seeds good agarwood tree seeds are seeds that are free from disease and have a minimum height of 20 to 30 cm with a diameter of one cm to be ready planted after gaharu tree seeds are obtained Next, the farmer prepares the land to plant it The ideal spacing is three times three meters but can also be adapted to needs ideally one hectare of land can be planted around 1111 agarwood tree then the planting hole must be dug at least two weeks before planting good planting is done when mid rainy season.

Hi friends at the beginning of the growth of agarwood seedlings it is necessary given the shade so that the tree seeds not exposed to direct sunlight and don't get sunlight too much Excess sunlight can make excessive evaporation and make seeds agarwood tree to dry In addition, at the beginning of the tree's growth agarwood requires spraying with organic insecticide to deal with leaf-eating insects and caterpillars every agarwood tree that is planted does not all trees can produce sapwood gaharu so that when harvested at the age of seven year If the agarwood tree does not have agarwood sapwood or resin to make trees become worthless.

Two Mutmut while resin or sapwood gaharu This tree is produced from the process tree's self-defense from viruses as well as infection from outside Therefore farmers try to speed up the process the formation of agarwood sapwood by means of inoculation This inoculation process can be carried out by farmers when the agarwood trees are old five to seven years microbes injected into the stem gaharu tree is a fungus fusarium SP or Aspergillus SP the price of inoculated microbes is priced about one million per liter and every trees need at least three liters for this inoculation process Two gaharu tree inoculation stage begins by choosing the agarwood tree have a stem diameter of at least 15 cm.

Then the workers make holes with drills electricity gaharu tree trunk to the eye drill into the stem of Agarwood with the angle of the drill bit is approximately 15 to 45° then put the infusion bottle on every hole that has been made this infusion bottle model may vary for each farmer and customized with the size of the gaharu tree trunk Next the workers prepare the liquid the microbe that will be infused into the pre-installed bottle workers then fill the bottles the some big farmers give barcode on trees for easy monitoring tree development during the inoculation period The results of this inoculation can be seen after six to seven months after injection.

This success is marked by every the hollowed out stem turns into black and fragrant naturally the frequency of fungal infections on the agarwood tree is very low some estimates state that Only two percent of wild agarwood trees infected and produce agarwood sapwood naturally which means hunting to find Natural agarwood is very hard wood grain healthy and uninfected agarwood pale in color and odorless valuable after successful inoculation and tree Agarwood is already next year harvesting can be done work cutting trees with channel and cut the tree trunk long between half to one meter in the production room.

Working will separate healthy wood meat and agarwood sapwood or resin healthy logs cut into small pieces and dried then this piece of wood will be ground and mixed with other ingredients to be made into various incense form Hi. As for the agarwood sapwood impregnated with this resin can be sold directly in chunks and appreciated according to the weight next sapwood gaharu or this out usually by consumers will be burned like buhur as perfume especially in the middle East.

But in big farmers usually sapwood agarwood will be extracted into oil agarwood with the distillation process this distillate oil will used as a base mix expensive perfume for most first distilled oil pure old out oil, the price is can reach 1.2 billion per liter no wonder this oil got the nickname Liquid gold Two The aroma produced from agarwood has been highly valued by many cultures and religion throughout history global market for agarwood is estimated worth.