About Plants Agarwood

About the Agarwood Plants - Agarwood is a timber shaped materials containing resin or resin and when burned will emit a distinctive scent.

Export commodity has a high value in both the national and international markets so as to help increase incomes. Agarwood trade in the world known as agarwood, aloe wood, and eagle wood, oud (the Middle East), and Cing (China).
Agarwood is obtained from parts (roots, stems, branches) agarwood trees with the names of the regions include: calabac, Karas, kekaras, mengkaras (Dayak), galoop (Malay), Halim (Lampung), pious (Batak), kareh (Minang ), age (Sorong), bokuin (Morotai), lason (Seram), Ketimunan (Lombok), ruhuwama (Sumba), and must admit that (Flores). There are several types of agarwood trees, among others, which are currently being cultivated by people in Indonesia is kind Gyrinops spp. And Aquilaria spp. Both types produce agarwood with high quality so very interested in the community to be cultivated.
Scent or fragrance by burning simply done by many Middle Eastern societies (such as Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Oman) as fragrances, body and space, while the use of more varied widely practiced in China, Korea, and Japan-like material industrial raw perfume, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, incense, and preservatives various types of accessories as well as for the purposes of religious activity




Eaglewood cultivation

At first agarwood trees are often found in natural forests, but aloes uncontrolled hunting since the 1980s as a result of high consumer demand led to the tree aloes in increasingly scarce natural. To meet consumer demand is still high, then the way to do is to cultivate or grow back 





either in the forest or on lands belonging to the community. Cultivation of agarwood has done since the 1990s and continues to thrive in parts of Indonesia, especially by people on the island of Sumatra, Kalimantan and Lombok. Since the last 5 years, people in Java became interested and busy-busy planting tree seedlings aloes his lands. Cultivation of agarwood trees growing rapidly it is expected to be able to produce agarwood well to meet consumer demand and increase incomes. The cultivation of agarwood trees is one of the medium-term investment with promising results.


Agarwood trees can grow well in soil plains to the hills until it reaches an altitude of 800 meters above sea level with a soft sandy clay soil conditions (pH: 4.0 to 6.0). The pattern of agarwood tree planting can be done with monoculture (equivalent) and poly (mixture). Planting of monoculture performed in vacant land with a distance of 2 x 2 m, 2 x 3 m and 3 x 3 m. While planting a polyculture patterns can be done in conjunction with other crops such as cocoa, rubber, coffee, palm oil, Albizia, or planted in the yard cultivation of existing collection of plants (enrichment).