Tibetan incense producers stick to old traditions

Name: Tibetan incense producers stick to old traditions
Uploaded: 2011-07-12T04:56:17.000Z
Description: Incense producers in Tibet continue to use century old methods of producing hand-made incense sticks.

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Tonba Township in south-west Tibet is the hometown of incense production.

Among its 473 housholds, 239 can make Tibetan incense. Their annual income is more than $1.5m (£1m).

Watermills here are turning day and night to process the materials needed for Tibetan incense, which has a 1,300-year-old history.

Arif Shamim reports.

Asia-Pacific

12 July 2011