Madurai: Nursery garden owners in and around Chinnalapatti in Dindigul district, are showing interest in growing sandalwood saplings which are in demand across northern states including Maharashtra.

The Indian sandalwood tree (Santalaum album) is perhaps the planet’s most expensive wood, because of its cosmetic and therapeutic value. There is huge international demand for it, with its fragrant ...

Sandalwood hardly needs an introduction to the readers of The Hindu. It has been valued for many centuries, for its fragrant oil, its prized wood, and the many medicinal uses it has been put to. The ...