Guangdong Agarwood Plantations Exceed 70,000 Hectares

Guangdong Agarwood Plantations Exceed 70,000 Hectares: Why Does China's Planted Supply Matter?

• **Industrial clusters**: Dongguan (the historic "Guan Xiang" label), Dianbai in Maoming (one of the largest processing and trading hubs), Huazhou and Gaoyao (cultivation and seedling bases). Cultivation of *Aquilaria sinensis* at the scale of tens of thousands of hectares.
• **Industrial induction of resin**: Physical wounding, and above all biological inoculation with resin-producing fungi, and the "whole-tree resin formation" technique via intravenous drip (2–3 years to harvest) are the dominant plantation methods.
• **Quality threshold**: Chinese pharmacopoeia standards are fixed: alcohol-soluble extractives ≥ 10.0% and matching chromatographic profiles; planted agarwood meets them, and the "planted = inferior" label is an outdated image.
• **Two pricing systems**: Traditional foreign materials are governed by scarcity, story, and collectible value; planted materials are governed by supply, grade, and transparent indicators — two separate columns that should not be bargained against each other.
• **Buying tips**: Request CMA-accredited reports, check for uniform oil distribution, use planted agarwood for incense and daily use, and beware of "old wild wood" narratives attached to planted wood.
• Terminology: agarwood, *Aquilaria sinensis*, sesquiterpenes, chromones.