Sunday, March 7, 2010

One way of extracting Agar oil

There are several ways to extract agar oil. This is just a way followed by a farmer. The farmer is showing his small scale agar industry. This taken from Sylhet division of Bangladesh.

 

Chipping the tree


  

Keeping it in water for at least two months


From water tank it is taken to boiler


His only boiler

Collecting agar oil



Stored in bottles


Extracting the resinous agarwood





Saturday, March 6, 2010