XI WORLD FORESTRY CONGRESS Antalya, Turkey, 13 to 22 October 1997
	VOLUME 3, TOPIC 12 SUMMARIES OF VOLUNTARY PAPERS MAJOR ISSUES OF TROPICAL FOREST PLANTATIONS Devendra Pandey1 Tropical forest plantations offer one of the major strategies to halt the process of tropical deforestation and to meet future demands of wood. Forest plantation development in the tropics speeded up in late 1970s when social benefits of forest plantations gained strong ground and community and social forestry projects were launched in a number of countries. The area of plantations has increased many times since then. Doubt exists, however, about the actual area of plantations and volume produced at global, regional and at country levels. The reason is that most of countries do not monitor their plantations and maintain plantation records well. With a few exceptions, adequate attention has not been paid to the technical and planning aspect of plantations development and as a result most plantations yield low volumes compared to their productive capacity. There is a lack of data on growth and yield of plantations. In order to achieve the full potential of tropical forest plantations and their sustainable development it is essential that the following major issues are given priority: land use and plantation policies, integrated planning, site species matching, quality control of planting material, growth and yield studies, tending and monitoring of plantations and maintenance of plantation data banks. Keywords: major issues, uncertainty, tending, monitoring, policies, integrated planning, site species matching, productivity, planting material, data bank 1 Director, Forest Education Government of India, Ministry of Environment and Forest, New Forest, Dehradun - 248006, India; Fax +91 135 626168 Previous Section Next Section   Download the Pdf file for this topic (332 K) What is a Pdf file ?   Back to Top of the page
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