Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: For thousands of years, agarwood has been known as "The Wood of the Gods." First-grade agarwood can cost as much as $100,000 per kilogram ...

A stone’s throw from the city’s urban centre are forests that are home to trees that produce fragrant agarwood, used in high-end products from incense and perfume to traditional Chinese medicine.

HIGH-VALUE PRODUCT. A kilogram of agarwood worth PHP750,000 is intercepted by the Bureau of Customs (BOC) at a warehouse in Pasay City on Jan. 31, 2025. AGRI Party-list Rep. Manoy Wilbert Lee on ...

The goal: to produce the highly prized agarwood. Agarwood, also known as gaharu in Malaysia, is a fragrant dark resinous wood formed in the heart of the tree trunk that is used in the production ...

AGRI Party-list Rep. Manoy Wilbert Lee hailed the Bureau of Customs (BOC) for intercepting P750,000 worth of smuggled agarwood, which led him to renew his personal call for a sustainable agarwood ...