Year: 1995
Type: article
Abstract: Aloeswood is one of the most valuable minor forest products of the Southeast Asian tropical rain forests.Borneo is a center of Aqtcilaria spp.and man)' people are cellecting aloeswood from upriver mountain ranges.The col}ected materials are sent downriver to the harbor cities and thence to Singapore, the largest commercial center of aloeswood, where merchants gather from Arabia, Bangladesh and China.Seventy pereent of aloeswood is sent to Arab countries and the rest to the China area.Artificial plantations of Aq"ilaria spp.and various experimental tria!s to produce aloeswood are being made by local researchers and merchants.
Author: Isamu Yamada
Language: English
Topic: Wood and Agarwood Research
Subfield: Forestry
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W81833404