STUDYING SOME ANATOMICAL AND MECHANICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF COMPRESSION WOOD FOR PINUS BRUTIA TEN. LEANING TREES

STUDYING SOME ANATOMICAL AND MECHANICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF COMPRESSION WOOD FOR Pinus brutia Ten. LEANING TREES

This study was conducted to show the effect of compression wood on some anatomical characteristics and mechanical characteristics of brutia pine Pinus brutia Ten.trees growing naturally at Dohuk provenance and to compare it with the standing trees (tree leaning type) for four levels of stem height, and between compression wood and opposite wood pre

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ADOPTION OF COCONUT-BASED INTERCROPPING SYSTEMS IN SRI LANKA: THE FALLACY OF CONVENTIONAL WISDOM ON ECONOMIC PROFITABILITY

Despite the concerted efforts of successive governments in Sri Lanka to popularize coconut-based intercropping (CBI) systems, an intensive land use alternative to traditional less intensive coconut monocropping, its adoption by farmers is as low as 25% of the agronomically potential area of 100,000 ha.Although the adoption of an innovation is influ

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