Editing Incense (section)

===Indian===
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[[File:Incense in India.jpg|thumb|Incense in India]]
Incense sticks, also known as {{lang|hi-Latn|agarbattī}} ({{langx|hi|अगरबत्ती}}) and joss sticks, in which an incense paste is rolled or moulded around a bamboo stick, are the main forms of incense in India. The bamboo method originated in India and is distinct from the Nepali, Tibetan, and Japanese methods of stick making without bamboo cores.

The basic ingredients are the bamboo stick, the paste (generally made of charcoal dust and joss/jiggit/gum/tabu powder – an adhesive made from the bark of [[litsea glutinosa]] and other trees),<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eu8_q_7rBD4C&pg=PA50 |title=Markets and Rural Poverty: Upgrading in Value Chains |page=50 |author1=Jonathan Mitchell |author2=Christopher Coles |publisher=IDRC |year=2011 |access-date=5 August 2013 |isbn=9781849713139}}</ref> and the perfume ingredients - which would be a masala ([[spice mix]]) powder of ground ingredients into which the stick would be rolled, or a perfume liquid sometimes consisting of synthetic ingredients into which the stick would be dipped. Perfume is sometimes sprayed on the coated sticks. Stick machines are sometimes used, which coat the stick with paste and perfume, though the bulk of production is done by hand rolling at home. There are about 5,000 incense companies in India that take raw unperfumed sticks hand-rolled by approximately 200,000 women working part-time at home, and then apply their own brand of perfume, and package the sticks for sale.<ref name=Harper2>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VODZCM5qblYC&pg=PA249 |title=Inclusive Value Chains: A Pathway Out of Poverty |author=Malcolm Harper |page=249 |publisher=World Scientific |year=2010  |access-date=4 August 2013 |isbn=9789814295000}}</ref> An experienced home-worker can produce 4,000 raw sticks a day.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bVIuvRibcegC&pg=PA16 |title=South Indian Factory Workers: Their Life and Their World |author=Mark Holmström |page=16 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |date=3 Dec 2007 |access-date=5 August 2013 |isbn=9780521048125}}</ref> There are about 50 large companies that together account for up to 30% of the market, and around 500 of the companies, including a significant number of the main ones, including Moksh Agarbatti, [[PremaNature]], and [[Cycle Pure]], are based in Mysore.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EymP-cYw2KsC&pg=PA84 |title=Urban Energy Systems |author=B. Sudhakara Reddy |page=84 |publisher=Concept Publishing Company |date=1 Jan 1998 |access-date=5 August 2013 |isbn=9788170226819}}</ref>