RED SANDAL WOOD

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1)  Red Sandalwood is a small tree that grows to 5-8 meters in height and has a dark greyish bark. The timber is highly demanded domestically and internationally, and particularly in East Asia: countries.

2) Generally, Red Sandalwood timber is mainly user for carvings, furniture, poles and house posts. The rare ‘wavy’ grain variants highly valued in Japan for its acoustic properties and is mostly used to make musical instruments. Ln addition, the timber is also exploited for the extraction of Santa line (a red pigment used as dye and colorant in food), medicine and cosmetics.

3) Red Sandalwood is a tree and the wood at the centre of the trunk (heartwood) is used as medicine. The uses of Red Sandalwood is mainly for treating digestive tract problems, fluid retention, and coughs and for “blood purification”. Indians have been long deprived of this precious cash crop known as ‘Red Sandalwood’. This wild tree yields corers of rupees but needs least human care for its growth. India is one among the only six countries and it is mainly found only in South India.

4) It is a high demanding small tree growing to 9 meters tall with a trunk 150 to 175 cm diameter. It is fast-growing when young reaching 6m tall in 3 years even on degraded soils. IL is not frosted tolerant. The leaves are alternate, 3 to 9 cm long. The flowers are lured in short racemes. The fruit is a pod 6 to 9 cm long containing one or two seeds. The Red Sandalwood has been historically valued in China who introduced classical Chinese furniture to the west. It has been one of the mainly period woods for millennia.

5) Demand for red sandalwood is mainly in the overseas market, said a trader and it comes mainly from countries like China, Japan, Myanmar and other others in East Asia. The red sandalwood has medical advantages. According to Institute of Wood Science & Technology the wood gives cooling effect when applied externally for inflammations head-ache, bilious affections and skin diseases and improves treating headache, skin diseases, fever, boils, scorpion sting and to improve sight. On the business side, it is a good raw material for music instruments and luxury furniture, according to Indian Journal of Applied Research. It also yields Santa line dye, which finds use in colouring foodstuff and pharmaceutical preparations and additionally, the extracts obtained from the tree bark and wood are known to have several medicinal properties, said the study by A Bhagyaraj, research scholar and D V Ramana, professor, Department of Management Studies, Sri Venkateswra University, Tirupati. Traders also said it is even used in shipbuilding and it was reported that its been used to reduce the radiation of Nuclear reactors

6) Red Sandalwood is very popular and costly Timber. The wood is famous for its aroma and growth. Red Sandalwood can be grown anywhere in India, can be planted in 10 x 10 feet spitting which yields 500 kg by 10 years Red Sandalwood for cache tree. The Red Sandalwood is of high demand in China, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Canada, USA, UK and Gulf countries.