Nowadays, Aquilariais increasingly smuggled to more and more countries, and Thailand is one of them. We are trying to promote the legal trading of Aquilaria as Thailand is the first country to produce oil from the plant. Many countries have tried to do this without success.

More than 20 years that Siam Krisana Group by Mr. Peerapan Wichitpan has made many researches to discover the new breed and to get oil from this valuable plant of South East Asia and South Asia and export it out.

The new breed is called "Aquilaria Panrapeethai". It is a straight and strong tree can grow in any kind of soil. To get oil, we have to make wounds on young plan. Aquilaria Panrapeethai is the combination of Aquilaria crassa and Aquilaria Subintegra which are strong and oily breeds. The discovery made a lot of profit to the ones who are interested in Aquilaria in the long run. The discovery of how to stimulate the tree of produce oil is to make wounds on the tree. Normally, the wounds are made on the grown up trees by birds or insect in deep forests and these old trees will give oil. By science technique, we can make the tree produce oil from the wound since it is very young. The two discoveries "The Panrapeethai and The Stimulation on producing oil" are now registered in Thailand and the US.

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Mr. Panrapee was the first person to discover the Aquilaria genus, now known as "Panrapee". He is the registered owner of "Panrapee Aquilaria Breed" and the founder of the technique for stimulating oil from the plant, ahead of competition from 70 other countries. He demonstrated his research techniques at the 3rd World Herb and Fragrant Plant Seminar, held at Pangsuankaew Hotel, Chiang Mai. This seminar was organized by the Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University and Rand Ltd., and hosted by Thailand on 3rd - 7th February 2003. Princess Mahachakri Sirinthorn inaugurated the fair, and then visited Highness showed great interest and asked about the research. During the exhibition, she also encouraged researchers and agriculturalists to plant more trees and get back a balanced ecology for the forests and water resources.

Mr. Panrapee has said that both Thais and foreigners showed much interest in the fragrant plants throughout the period of the fair. On February 6th, 2003, he was invited to give a lecture to present his 20 years of research and participants from many countries were impressed with his research.

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Mr. Panrapee added that on February 8th, 2003, he has invited Dr.Nipon Tuwanond, the rector of Chiang Mai University with his colleague to Huay Hongkrai agriculture experimental station at Doi Saked, Chiang Mai. Mr. Chaiwat Sindhuwongse, former misnister of the ministry of industry had inaugurated and watched the experiment. Prof. Dr. Prathuangsi Sinchaisee, and officer from Fragrant Plant Department, Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperation, tested the experiment. He crushed and fermented the old Aquilaria and then refined it. The refined fragrant oil can be used for industry goods and the remains can be used in some kind of medicine and some other goods.

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On February 9th, 2003, 120 foreign researchers visited the fragrant garden, watched the experiment. Some had never seen the fragrant plant which is valuable for the people of the Middle East. The attendees were very much interested; Some came from Japan-India-Sri Lanka-France-England and the United States and wanted to buy the registration or to share the capital. But Mr. Panrapee wanted to develop the experiment. He had tried hard for over 20 years for Thai people and Thailand to develop this product.

Mr. Panrapee started the experiment in a factory in Cambodia in 1983 until 1986. He traveled in and out of Cambodia from 1987 to 1990. He experimented with 4 - 5 breeds of fragrant trees from wild forests. He found that the Middle Eastern people consume most of the fragrant oil. He sent samples to Dubai, Oman, Iran, Saudi Arabia, India, Egypt, Japan, England, Germany, France and let them try goods. He produced the fragrant oil from 1991-1995. He planted 3 breeds of Aquilaria in Trad, Chantaburi, Rayong from 1987-1995. Then, he planted each breed all over in the following places: