The Assam government, in an effort to salvage this native tree from further disappearance, notified the Assam Agarwood Promotion Policy 2020, offering incentives to farmers and others including the tea industry to raise agarwood plantations. Like Ali, Joon Das, also a tea grower in the Dibrugarh district, has planted agarwood saplings in his tea garden and is now awaiting their maturity. Comparing the average revenue one can earn from tea versus agarwood plantation, Jehirul Islam, who holds a patent for artificial infection of agarwood trees, said, “One can earn between Rs.