Planteurs et plantations

Plantations, recherche, développement, VOL. 5, N° 4/98

La cocoteraie mondiale couvre une superficie d’environ 11,5 millions d’hectares. Les petites plantations (< 3-4 ha) fournissent 96 % de la production mondiale de coprah. Sur ces petites exploitations, le cocotier est presque toujours associé à d’autres cultures. Les planteurs, soit en raison d’une vieille habitude culturale, soit sous l’effet d’une pression foncière grandissante, essaient de va...

Harvesting Costs and Utilization of Hardwood Plantations’

The use of short rotation, intensive culture (SRIC) practices in hardwoods to meet fiber supply needs is becoming increasingly widespread. Total plated area of short rotation hardwood fiber plantations is currently about 22,OfKI ha (McDonald and Stokes 1993). That figure should certainly to grow in response to public concerns over loss of natural hardwood stands. With many of the plantations cu...

An integrated approach for monitoring tea plantations

This study proposes an approach to develop a simple, time efficient and generic approach to assess and monitor tea plantations in Northeast India using time series remote sensing images. The tea industry in India is in a consolidation phase with the plantations suffering from yield decline and quality. Tea is affected by a plethora of factors including age, environment and management. Therefore...

Palm oil production through sustainable plantations

The Malaysian oil palm industry is one of the most highly organised sectors of any national agriculture system of the world. Today, though, the focus has shifted to how well agriculture also meets universally accepted standards of sustainability. This paper highlights the development of oil palm cultivation and responsible farming practices in Malaysia, the world’s largest producer of palm oil....

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