Plantation Forestry in the Tropics: Tree Planting for Industrial, Social, Environmental, and Agroforestry Purposes

Part I-Introduction: Introduction Why plantations? Man-made forest in tropical countries Plantation organization and structure Part II-Land, social and economic factors, and planning in plantation development: Land and plantation development Some social and economic factors in tree-planting and plantation development Planning the plantation enterprise Part III-Plantation silviculture: What to plant? Seed collection, supply, and storage Forest nurseries Plantation establishment Plantation maintenance Nutrition of tree crops Dynamics of stand growth Thinning High pruning Rotations and regeneration Protection - an introduction Part IV- Tree-planting and plantation forestry: in rural development, for soil conservation and rehabilitation, and environmental considerations: Tree-planting in rural development and agroforestry Protective afforestation Afforestation of inhospitable sites Ecological factors and long-term productivity Bibliography Index.