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Cultivated Agarwood Inducing Approach
Farmed Agarwood may appear the best action to do these days, especially with the uproar to the shortage of Agarwood trees coming from the outrageous which is struggling to meet global demand. But is the practice of inducing manufactured substances and other foreign items into the tree to promote resin development considered an honest practice from the tree's view? This is the issue commonly raised when we have discussions with green hands about farmed agarwood.
oud - Ever since the Aquilaria species of its own family and bacteria were annexed to the CITES convention, there has been a quantity of agarwood plantations being exposed and promoted by people of all over, including people who scarcely understand what is Oud.
The catchline for their promotion is infectious - that Oud is the next hot investment property, pound for pound more costly than Gold.
While it's really an expensive commodity, Oud, just like diamond, has various levels of worthiness, and professionals understand that farmed agarwood does not fair too high up in that value list, although with some exceptions.
The strategy that farmers utilize to cause the farmed agarwood tree are varying. From drilling chemical liquid inducer injections to bamboo sticks, they're meant to permeate deeply into the heart of the tree in order to cause hurt and worry to it. Ironically now, some Oud sellers are ardently boasting of their chemical and synthetic free organic Ouds but their supply of agarwood are these very same farms who use chemicals to make the resinous heartwood.
While cultivated versions of other crops, like oranges and apples, for example, do not need the endurance of painstaking impaling tactics to keep fruit, the unique agarwood prized 'fruit' - the resinous Oud - may be the result of it being subjected to a stressful situation and surroundings. In the great outdoors, the natural resin formation causes of bacterial and fungal infection, soil erosion and hilly growth areas are a marked contrast to what these modern producers are doing.
An agonising effect could be probably caused by the picture on your right of an agarwood tree of probably around 25 years old on the devoted and hardcore evergreen advocates. Trees are really a living thing and a green thumb would likely confirm for the reality that these trees would undoubtedly experience hurt in the procedure of modern day agarwood farming.
If you experienced a great chance to buy a 'bargain' agarwood chip or oil on e-bay, we invite you to sample Sultanul Oud premium and wild agarwood oil and chips. Feel the marked differences in quality between farmed and wild Oud for yourself.
More to come on this.
