Agarwood Plantation Ownership Program
Agarwood Investment Agarwood is reputed to be the most expensive wood in the world. There are many names for the resinous, fragrant heartwood produced primarily by trees in the genus Aquilaria. Most commonly, the resin is known as agarwood, aloeswood, eaglewood, gaharu, agalocha or oudh (In Arabic). Agarwood has been[...]
Why is Plantations International Agarwood Oud Oil so popular?
Agarwood Oud Oil Oud oil from Plantations International agarwood or gaharu has become an extremely fashionable ingredient during the last years. The East and the South have always been sources for exotic and often absolutely necessary ingredients for perfumes that are typically made in the West. However, agarwood has never received[...]
Plantations International Ghana Seed Orchard
Ghana Seed Orchard Needless to tell that tropical forests are endangered all around the world. Apart from the loss in biodiversity, in our view, the clearing of tropical rainforests lies at the heart of the disruption of the rainfall patterns all around the world, and constitutes a major factor in[...]
Scientists in India Invent Sugar Free Mangoes
Sugar Free Mangoes The mango is India's most popular fruit, but due to its high sugar content, diabetics are unable to eat it and unfortunately, India has one of the highest rates of diabetes in the world. But scientists are now trying to create a new form of sugar-less mango[...]
Soy & Oilseed Facts | Trade Flow Manual
New Publication Explains Global Oilseed And Grain Trade The U.S. Soybean Export Council's (USSEC) Competitiveness Committee recently completed an extremely useful publication titled How the Global Oilseed and Grain Trade Works. This publication was completed in cooperation with Soyatech and HighQuest Partners, who have an intimate knowledge of the grain[...]
The Facts About Plantations International Palm Oil
Palm Oil Facts The oil palm (Elaeis Guineensis) has ancient roots. Oil from this attractive palm, which grows wild in West Africa and Equatorial Africa, has been used as a food and energy source for millennia. Ancient Egyptians used it -- as attested by the discovery of an earthenware jar[...]
Malaysia’s Customs Officers are Helping Keeping the Timber Trade Legal
Malaysia Legal Timber Trade More than 100 customs officers, forestry officials, timber trade enforcement and private sector representatives from across Malaysia met in Putrajaya to develop timber trade guidelines to assist frontline customs authorities in their work at a national workshop organized by the Ministry of Plantations Industries and Commodities[...]
The Truth About Agarwood and Oud Oil
If you want to cultivate agarwood, ignore the myths. It does not respond to folklore or shortcuts. It requires controlled conditions, disciplined inputs, and time. Temperature, shade, and water quality matter, but the real driver of value is biological stress. Without infection, the tree has no commercial value. With the[...]
Plantations international to Start Fly Freighting Mangoes From Pakistan
Plantations International is considering to start using Emirates or Etihad Airlines for the transportation of mangoes from Multan to Gulf states and European countries in November 2016, said Jamal Alfazi, Vice President of Commercial Operation Centre of Plantations International in Pakistan while talking to the members of Executive Committee of Multan[...]
Airport upgrades in Tanzania Increase Fresh Produce Exports
Storage facilities at the Julius Nyerere International Airport have been upgraded in a move meant to bolster Tanzania’s fresh produce exports as international demand burgeons. The move was also meant to abide by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) that requires clear separation of the import and export cargo terminals.[...]
Agarwood Lessons from FRIM
Fifteen participants took part in a two-day course on ‘Conservation and Management of Aquilaria (Karas) for Agarwood’ at Long Bemang, Ulu Baram recently. The course implemented by Forest Research Institute of Malaysia (FRIM) was facilitated by local entrepreneur Tinnes Malai. FRIM’s head of Forest Plantation Management Branch for Forestry Biotechnology[...]
Africa’s Untapped Bamboo Potential
Bamboo The Miracle Crop THE new economic force is generating income, creating jobs and protecting the environment. It is a “wonder plant” that is uniquely blessed. Agronomists in Africa believe it can restore degraded landscapes while economists think it is a potential “green gold,” and a silver bullet for design[...]