The traditional areca growers, who suffered a huge loss following the wide spread of yellow-leaf disease, were attracted to agarwood, given the market for their value-added products. Following extensive promotion activity by private companies, the growers opted for the crop. They were assured of good returns after six to eight years.

Agarwood trees are naturally grown in the north-eastern part of India. There, the trees get naturally infected with fungi that help form fragrant resin, which has huge demand. However, here, the growers go for artificial inoculation after the tree has grown for a few years. Through a chemical process, trees are infected with fungus. The growers are losing interest as the inoculation process did not show the desired result.

The private companies are expected to have sold over 12 lakh seedlings of agarwood in the last 15 years in Karnataka. A few farmers are happy with the returns. Few Farmers told that they are earning up to ₹25,000 per tree. They have grown over 5,000 plants and he has started earning income in the last two years. “The income from agarwood is higher than areca farms. However, many people have not understood this fact.

We AG-CROPCHEM as a company developing new product for artificial inoculation, crop development & crop schedule specially for Agarwood plantation. We have already started multi-location trials of our product, soon after the field trials confirms its effectivness we will be launching the product to help farmer reap maximum from this commerical crop.

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