Objective

Develop sets of silvicultural techniques for natural forest rehabilitation, which can be applied under 661 Program (Rehabilitation program of Vietnamgovernment).

 

Experiment site

Experiment area locates in 3 communes in Hoa Binh dam (Vay Nua commune in Da Bac district, Binh Thanh and Thung Nai commune in Cao Phong district).

 

Contents

The contents of the experiments are summarized in the following table.

 

Experimental models

No

Experimental models

Area (ha)

1

Planting of native tree species in bare land

7.2

2

Sowing seeds of native tree species directly in bare land

1.2

3

Supplemental planting of native tree species to enrich poor exhausted forest

6.0

4

Protection and natural assisted regeneration

7.5

5

Mix planting of native tree species with Dendrocalamus (bamboo)

3.0

6

Planting of non-timber tree species in poor exhausted forest

3.0

7

Underplanting of native tree species in Acacia plantation

3.0

 

Each model contains 3 to 5 treatments to find out better methods for rehabilitation of natural forests. Main target tree species are; Cinnamomum parthenoxylum, Erythrophloeum fordii, Hopea odorata, Lithocarpus ducampii, Peltophorum tonkinensis, Melia azedarach, Ormosia balansae, Canarium album, and Lithocarpus fissus.

 

Implementing organization

Research Centre for ForestEcology and Environment (RCFEE)

Silvicultural Techniques Research Division of FSIV

 

 

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