Description: PART I: Introduction 1. Introduction 2. Why Plantations? 3. Man-Made Forest in Tropical Countries 4. Plantation Organization and Structure PART II: Land, Social and Economic Factors, and Planning in Plantation Development 5. Land and Plantation Development 6. Some Social and Economic Factors in Tree-Planting and Plantation Development 7. Planning the Plantation Enterprise PART III: Plantation Silviculture 8. What to Plant? 9. Seed Collection, Supply, and Storage 10. Forest Nurseries 11. Plantation Establishment 12. Plantation Maintenance 13. Nutrition of Tree Crops 14. Dynamics of Stand Growth 15. Thinning 16. High Pruning 17. Rotations and Regeneration 18. Protection--An Introduction PART IV: Tree-Planting and Plantation Forestry: In Rural Development, for Soil Conservation and Rehabilitation, and Environmental Considerations 19. Tree-Planting in Rural Development and Agroforestry 20. Protective Afforestation 21. Afforestation of Inhospitable Sites 22. Ecological Factors and Long-Term Productivity

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