On Thursday, residents of Singla tea estate in Assam's Hailakandi district prevented forest department officials from felling a valuable and endangered agar tree, the largest in Assam. SILCHAR: On ...

The primary source of agarwood and one of the world’s most expensive trees, the evergreen agar tree (Aquilaria malaccensis Lam) is a step away from extinction in the wild. In Assam, reputed to be ...

WE all know that our forests are imperiled. Development, climate change and poaching have reduced them to endangered levels enough to imperil our future (if not our present) sustainability. While we ...

Standing precariously on the slope of a tree-covered hill in Kaptai National Park in southeast Bangladesh, Mohammad Musa was clearing bushes with a machete. Our eyes widened in shock when he ran the ...

Department of Forest (FD) has taken an agar plantation programme in the name of creating social forestation on 25 hectares of land in Rangamati, threatening livelihood of 50 indigenous poor families.

New Delhi [India], November 27 (ANI): Trade in "liquid gold" Agarwood, among the most commercially prized plant species globally, is now becoming a lucrative venture in Assam, the land famed for its ...

(MENAFN- IANS) Agartala, Sep 10 (IANS) The Tripura government has taken initiative for obtaining Geographical Indication (GI) tags for Agar tree in state Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare Minister ...

Guwahati: In what is going to give a boost to the perfume industry in Assam, the state government has removed restriction on agar tree cultivation on non-forest land and its sale, paving the way for a ...

The Tripura government has announced to generate an annual income of Rs 2,000 crore by 2025 from agar (Aquilaria malaccensis), an evergreen tree, abandoned in northeastern hills of South Asia, said ...

The first-ever two-day Buyer-Seller Meet on the Agarwood Products of Tripura concluded at Agartala on Wednesday. The meet, aimed at building an economically viable Agarwood industry in Tripura, was ...

Between 1999 and 2011, the Bangladesh Forest Department created 4,822 hectares (11,915 acres) of agarwood plantations across the country with local beneficiaries carrying out the clearing of forest ...