Cultivation of fast growing tree species in Italy
Cultivation of fast growing tree species in Italy
Mahmood Iqbal Sheikh
ABSTRACT
CULTIVATION OF FAST GROWING TREE SPECIES IN ITALY
Mahmood Iqbal Sheikh< DFRD, Pakistan Forest Institute, Peshawar
Abstract:
Cultivation and management techniques of poplars, conifers, Eucalypts and willows as practiced in Italy, have been discussed in this paper. Whereas, the multifarious research problems are being attended to by the institutes especially established for the purpose under the patronage of an autonomous body (E.N.C.C.), the farmers are making full use of the recommendations of experts by putting large areas under fast growing tree species, employing the most modern and scientific techniques. Through consistent effort, the best methods of growing and managing these species have been developed over a period of time. Since enough state land is not available to practice poplar cultivation with intensive agriculture, the farming community has been encouraged and persuaded to grow this tree on their land in the form of widely spaced compact blocks or row plantations. The targets which to many looked rather ambitious in the beginning, have fully been achieved through proper planning, execution, and above all, cooperation between the growers and the consumers to the benefit of both the sides. In view of the chronic shortage of raw material to feed the pulp and paper industry in Pakistan, planting of fast growing species in irrigated forest plantations, extensive practice of agro-forestry and involvement of private enterprise in such projects of national importance has been recommended.
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December 1973
Vol. 23, Iss. 4
