Key Policy Points
Promoting Cultivation & Sustainability:
Encouraging growers to plant agarwood on private and community lands for livelihood and income generation.
Ensuring sustainable utilization of agarwood by emphasizing cultivation, harvesting, processing, and trade.
Focusing on cultivated, artificially propagated agarwood and strictly prohibiting trade in wild agarwood.
Formalizing Trade & Market Linkages:
Formalizing agarwood trade to connect growers directly with buyers and ensure fair pricing.
Promoting the growth of agarwood-based industries by promoting Ease of Doing Business.
Establishing trade centers and providing necessary documentation to support legal trade and export.
Ensuring Legal & Regulatory Compliance:
Mandating that agarwood comes from registered plantations, with mandatory registration with the Forest Department.
Requiring a Certificate of Origin, authenticated by the Forest Department, for all agarwood trade.
Adhering to CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) regulations for exports, including compliance with annual export quotas.
Fostering Innovation & Skill Development:
Promoting Research and Development (R&D) in artificial inoculation, sustainable harvesting, and processing techniques to improve quality and yield.
Providing training and capacity building for local youth in plantation management, inoculation, and processing.
Protecting Product Value & Authenticity:
Seeking Geographical Indication (GI) tags to protect and promote high-quality agarwood products, such as the GI tag proposal by the Tripura government.
Ensuring that all transactions are documented and traceable, supporting the credibility of the agarwood market.