Agarwood Inoculation & Exporter Importer of Agarwood
Agarwood Inoculation & Exporter Importer of Agarwood
The Experts at Z Black Diamond Agarwood have developed 3 types of techniques for artificial inoculation of Agarwood. These techniques have been recognized and proven to be the best inoculation techniques till date and has a 100% success rate. The techniques are:
After tree felling, the leaves and branches are removed and the trunk is cut into 2-3 feet logs. The logs are cut into small blocks of wood very carefully without harming the resinous portion of the wood. Then, the resinous & non resinous wood is separated with the help of indigenous manual hand tools known as “Batail” or “Botali” of different types and sizes. The resinous wood is further polished and graded as per market standards.
The Oil is extracted through Hydro distillation or steam distillation of the infected resinous wood residues and the wood dust that remains while polishing the wood. This is a meticulous process and needs 24*7 monitoring for the extraction of the best Agar Oil also known as “Dahn Al Oud”.
To understand the process of artificial inoculation, we have to understand the natural process of resin formation in trees. Healthy Agar Trees do not allow formation of resin. Agarwood trees form resin only when the tree is injured or drilled by an insect called “Zeuzera Conferta” or “Borer Insect” after which the tree becomes vulnerable to some specific fungii which eventually infects the tree. This results in the formation of black and fragrant most valuable resin commonly known as Oud. This process is however very unpredictable as the time, duration, quantity and the quality of oud remains totally unknown. Moreover, there are only certain areas in the world where the insect and the fungii are abundant. Therefore, the formation of Oud is quite rare which makes it hard to find and is expensive to extract.
Our methodologies follow the same routine like the natural formation of Agarwood. In all the three methods the primary step is to injure the tree trunk artificially to facilitate the fungus infection.
In DTII, the injury is done through drill machines with proper precision by our inoculation experts. The drill holes need to be in proper place and with proper measurements. After this process, the inoculum is injected in the tree trunk through the drill holes. This process is repeated in another 60 days and left for a few months. This method is one of the most commonly used methods by our clients and partners because of it requires low investment and results are amazingly good.
In TIIC method, after the drill injury, the inoculum is injected through a cannula for a longer period of time. This process requires more amount of inoculum but the quantity of Oud obtained is quite high. Therefore, this is the most popular method of artificial inoculation.
In PIBR method, drill holes are not required, rather, the tree is injured through deep cuts in the tree trunk, a little deeper than the bark of the tree and the inoculum is pasted in the injured areas.
The resin formation can be seen within 2 months or less. The more time the inoculum is kept in the tree, the more valuable quality of Oud is obtained.
Besides chips and oil, the residue dust after distillation and even the leaves are sold in different sectors of the market in the world. The residue dust is largely used in incense industry whereas the leaves are commonly distilled to extract agar leaves oil used for therapeutic purposes and cosmetics.
The agar leaves are also consumed in the form of beverage like tea and also combined with tea since it has immense medicinal benefits still unknown to many people in the world.
The outer non resinous part of the tree which is white in colour is also distilled in large scale to obtain a particular Oil known as “Boya” which has high demand in the European markets especially the cosmetic industry.
Thus, not a single part of the agarwood tree goes in waste.
