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1. The role of casuarina on coastal sandy soil
Vietnam has a 3,200 km long coastline, with a total of about 600,000 ha coastal sandy soil. One part of that sandy soil has been used for agriculture. The remainder of about 462,000 ha is not favourable for industrial plants (Phan Lieu, 1987).
On these kinds of sandy soil, Casuarina equisetifolia is the most superior wooden species and is widely planted with the following objectives:
· Sand stabilization forest, forest belts set against moving sand in order to protect farming fields, roads and villages.
· Soil and environment improvement, especially in areas having hot winds such as Quang Binh and former Thuan Hai province.
· Windbreak forest belts acting against typhoons for most of the provinces in Central Vietnam.
· Supply of highly valuable firewood for the people living along the coast from Thanh Hoa to Binh Thuan province.
Latest news
- Project: Study on integrated management of insect pests and diseases on Docynia indica in northern Vietnam
- Project: Study on integrated pest management of major leaf insect pests and stem borer beetles in Acacia hybrid, A. mangium and A. auriculiformis in Vietnam
- Project: Research and develop an integrated management program for control of cinnamon pests in some main cinnamon growing areas (Northern mountainous region and Quang Nam province)
- Project: Pilot plantation and completion of planting techniques of technologically advanced germplasm of Acacia auriculiformis (AA42, AA53, AA56, AA92, AA95) for sawlog in the southeast and south central.
- Project "Research on selection of varieties and intensive afforestation techniques of Prunus arborea (Blume) Kalkman for providing lager timber in the Northeast and Northwest regions, Vietnam"
Oldest news
- Role of casuarina in Vietnam
- results of the research subject on genetic conservation of forest plant species up to 1993
- trials of planting liquidambar formosana on soil types having rhodomyrtus, melastoma sp., cratoxylum cochinchinensis, eupatorium odoratum and shrubs at huu lung
- some initial basis in the normative making of timber exploitation
- preliminary determination of forest tree species for forest economical regions ( 1983 - 1985)
