活动名称：木艺木趣国际研讨会暨展览会
时间地点：2011年10月21日，印度班加罗尔J N Tata多功能礼堂
演讲嘉宾：V S Venkatesha Gowda
演讲题目：From the House of Mysore Sandal

摘要：There are sixteen recognized species of sandalwood spread over in the world; broadly they can be grouped as East Indian sandalwood, Australian sandalwood, Hawaiian sandalwood and sandalwood of the Pacific Islands. Many of these are under the threat of extinction due to over exploitation. Some of the countries are taking steps to commercial cultivation using modern techniques to save the species. East Indian sandalwood, Santalum album L., is the queen among the species yielding superior quality essential oil very much required by the perfumery and allied industries. India was producing largest quantity of sandalwood oil meeting the world demand of over 80 percent during the past decades, but due over exploitation and various other reasons prevailing in the country, the quantity of production has come down drastically during recent years.

Many sandalwood based industries have come up recently in India as well as abroad on its proven importance for Natural products worldwide due to paradigm preference of customer worldwide and they require legal, ethical sustainable supply of Natural Sandalwood and essential oil. In view of the importance of natural sandalwood oil, in larger areas of applications viz., perfumes, fragrances, flavours, cosmetics, panparag, gutka. Many countries like Australia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Cambodia, Costa Rica, etc., are entered into commercial cultivation of East Indian sandalwood to meet global demand.

In the meanwhile, India is not lagging behind in its attempt to grow more sandalwood both in-situ & ex-situ by inter plantation method to bring back lost glory as a emerging economy in the world with available vast human resources potential and hopefully this would meet demand of both the domestic and international market. Further, this would generate silent increase in green cover, reduce global warming, economic empowerment of the grower, alleviate poverty, generate massive rural employment conserve Ecology & Bio-diversity.

V S Venkatesha Gowda, Karnataka Soaps and Detergents Limited, Sandal City, P. B. No. 5531, Bangalore - Pune Highway, Bangalore 560 055, India.