Ceylon Agarwood Plantations, Sri Lanka

28/11/2021

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22/10/2021

01/10/2021

'Baggage-Waiting is exhausted upon airtravel.
But after 1&1/2 yrs of C-19 blockade, it's "Refreshing" at DXB airport.

18/12/2018

Dispatching another energitic Agwd seedling batch (Aq.Cras) to our Kandy district tea plantation client.

05/02/2017

AGARWOOD KNOWN BY THE WORLD'S
Agar - hindi
A-ga-ru - Tibetan
Aguru - Telugu / Kannada, Bhutanese
Akil (அகில்), Vallappattai - Tamil
Cham Heong - Cantonese
Chénxiāng (沉香) - Chinese
Gaharu - Indonesian and Malay
Ghara or Eaglewood - Papua New Guinea
Jinkō (沈香), Kohboku - Japanese
Lignum aquila (eagle-wood), Agilawood, Lignum aloes or Aloeswood - Europe
Mai Ketsana - Laos
Mai Kritsana (ไม้กฤษณา) - Thai
Oud (عود) - Arabic
Sasi or Sashi - Assamese
Trầm hương - Vietnamese
Wallapatta, Pattawel, Kiriwalla - Sri Lanka
(Courtesy: Agaroudh)

09/01/2017

Agarwood Crop Production & Plant Management by small scale (and a few limited) entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka.

Several years of research conducted by biodiversity specialists and university research fellows has shown that Aquilaria plants can be grown in large scale in Badulla, Ratnapura, Kegalle, Kandy, Gampaha, Matale, Nuwara-Eliya, Kalutara, Galle and Matara out of 25 available districts. As it is regarded as a commercial forestry crop, it can progress to its own way with any other crops such as tea, pepper and other cash crops in Sri Lanka. We; most Sri Lankans even do not know that we supply 99% of cinnamon to the rest of the world. However, same as growing of Aquilaria Agarwood is not even dated for at least 5 odd years; where there are slightly over 1 million crops have been grown in elsewhere beyond 300 feet altitude. But, these sellers/ growers (Less than 5 developers in Sri Lanka) have to buy-back these ready-harvest trees after artificial inoculation and should be ready to purchase yield in another 3 to 4 years by tendering cash in SL Rs.30 billion (In US$ 200 miln!!!). Not only the payments for buy-back, but also to process for Agar oil distillery or to commence some Agar by-product factories which are yet to be started in Sri Lanka.

9 year old Acquilaria Agarwood plantation with over hundred healthily grown trees (yet to be inoculated) owned by the Ceylon Agarwood Plantation alone.

20/09/2016

World renowned Wallapatta, a Sinhalese language word known for it's bark in Sri Lankan mountainous regions. This particular phrase has become an unofficial branding in the fragrance world. This indegeneous specy called Gyrinops Walla has been identified as the world's most densely populated distributions in numbers which are presently high-level under threat of being hunted day by day without any replanting measures. However, it's replaced slowly by commercial forestry thru introduction of Aquilaria species brought down from Vietnam & Thailand.
Some photos of Wallapatta leaves, flowers, stem & fruit illustrated herewith:

13/07/2016

4 months old Agarwood Aquilaria seedlings / plants grown in almost 8 years enjoying typical Sri Lankan rainfall and nourished soil neutrians in vet arid or sub-mountanous zones along with sub-sub canopies. They are showing a high-level growth of about average 30 inch circumfrence and over 40feet height as they are planted in the zones within 25 km radius of Sinharaja rainforest, a world heritage site and a shelter for predominantly Gyrinops / Wallapatta trees.

27/05/2016

Gyrinops Walla, the 'Sri Lanka-Wallapatta' that has become unofficial branding to my country, such as 'Ceylon-Tea'. These photos taken by me during an exploration in an arid zone jungle, instructed by Associate Prof.P.Marasinghe. Walla Tree, stem, flowers, fruits & cut follows respectively.

20/05/2016

Dehn al-Oudh (Natural/Organic) process 1 by 1. Sri Lanka, believed to be Oudh/Agarwood nourished island nation beyond historic era.