sandalwood oil making plant in congo

                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
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  • Why are Sandalwood-based industries growing in India?
  • Many Sandalwood-based industries have sprung up recently in India as well as abroad due to a worldwide shift in customer preference toward natural products and a demand for legal, ethical sustainable supplies of natural Sandalwood and essential oil.‌
  • What is Sandalwood oil?
  • Sandalwood oil (hereafter, SO) is obtained by the steam distillation of the heartwood of the sandalwood tree. Its composition varies greatly with the species, region of growth, and age of the tree. SO is a complex mixture of plant secondary metabolites including terpenes and olefins.‌
  • Why is sandalwood important?
  • Importance… Aromatic oils produced from sandalwood trees are one of the world’s most valuable tree products. Traded internationally for centuries, sandalwood is used to make high-value, low-volume, non-perishable products for global markets. A key crop that generates much needed income in the remotest areas of the country.‌
  • What is East Indian sandalwood?
  • East Indian Sandalwood, Santalum album L., is the queen among Sandalwood species, yielding superior quality essential oil, hugely required by perfumery and related industries. Over the past decades, India was producing the largest quantity of Sandalwood oil, meeting over 80% of world demand (Gowda 2011).‌
  • How can we make Sandalwood oil more sustainable?
  • Other alternatives and more sustainable strategies to produce sandalwood oil include improved plantation systems, using predictive markers to develop heartwood in trees and metabolic engineering of heterologous host production systems to produce oil.‌
  • Who owns Sandalwood in Tamil Nadu & Karnataka?
  • Realizing the sharp decline in the Sandalwood population in their states and having accepted that they cannot be the custodians of Sandalwood anymore, the Karnataka and Tamil Nadu Forest Departments amended the Sandalwood Act in 2001 and 2002, respectively, and made the growers themselves owners of the Sandalwood as per the Amended Act.