{"id":11459,"date":"2012-11-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/11\/18\/world-s-largest-sandalwood-plantation-established-in-western-australia\/"},"modified":"2012-11-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T12:00:00","slug":"world-s-largest-sandalwood-plantation-established-in-western-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/11\/18\/world-s-largest-sandalwood-plantation-established-in-western-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s Largest Sandalwood Plantation Established In Western Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wasandalwood.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AUSTRALIA, November 25, 2011 (wasandalwood.com): With global demand for sandalwood products continuing to strengthen, Perth-based company WA Sandalwood Plantations has established what is believed to be the world&#8217;s largest single sandalwood plantation, located east of Perth in the state&#8217;s Central Wheatbelt.<\/p>\n<p>With site preparation work completed in April, more than 5 million trees were planted over recent months on some 8.5 square miles. &#8220;Our inquiries show this is the largest ever individual sandalwood plantation established anywhere in the world,&#8221; said WA Sandalwood Plantations&#8217; Managing Director Keith Drage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Global demand for sandalwood continues to increase while supplies have declined. As a result, the future is looking very bright for the Australian sandalwood industry.&#8221; Once the sandalwood trees are harvested in approximately 15 &#8211; 20 years, they will be used for the production of a range of items including joss sticks (incense), perfume and medicinal items.<\/p>\n<p>HPI Note: Every year the amount of available sandalwood for sale on the world market is going down while the price is going up&#8211;now to $125,000\/metric ton for wood and $2,000 per kilogram for oil, and expected to rise 6% per year for both wood and oil for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source AUSTRALIA, November 25, 2011 (wasandalwood.com): With global demand for sandalwood products continuing to strengthen, Perth-based company WA Sandalwood Plantations,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}