From what i've heard, the demand for these artificialy created resin in the middle east has drop due to the allergic & flu the arab gets after using it in their house.
And the is one company in kelantan which is giving free 'dopu' tree to be planted by land owner and from the brochure that i saw this morning during Raya gathering at my mother in law house, it is our beloved Tengku Anis who give out these free dopu tree. maybe i could scan the brochure and paste it here but this is raya day. maybe tomorrow i post it.

he he posting using D810 + celcom 3g

look at this!
(picture taken from kickdefella blog)

if timber is not profitable then there shall be no timber business, no corruption in timber biz bla bla bla..

u ask small children also they know tokey balak..banyak wang...

about gaharu, it is becoz
1. it is new to us so we dunno the real potential.
2. our food/agriculture/timber technology is way behind thailand.
3. nobody who has venture in this biz willing to share..

but from here say it is very potential.
got 2 output, 1. gaharu, 2. oad oil

my bro inlaw last time produce oud oil and he can sell it to dubai customer for usd250/quater tola (quater tola is about the same size as the small perfume tester bottle).

The only problem is the supply of the dopu/gaharu tree to produce the oil (it involve distillation)

so if u can plant the trees u can produce 2 output.

my experience in selling harvested gaharu - so hard to find genuine buyer whereby theres plenty of sellers.. buyers keep asking for quality/high gred gaharu. very few keen on buying gaharu tree/log. all want harvested.