Tree nursery manual for Eritrea / Chris Palzer
- Bib ID:
- 1023597
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Palzer, Christian
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- Nairobi : Regional Land Management Unit, RELMA/Sida, 2002
- x, 166 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9966896600
- Series:
- RELMA technical handbook series ; no. 26.
- Summary:
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"This manual represents a first attempt to provide guidelines for establishment and management of tree seedling nurseries for Eritrean conditions. Emphasis in the manual is given to continued use of labour-intensive, low-technology production methods which are appropriate to the socio-economic conditions likely to prevail within Eritrea in the foreseeable future" -- p. v.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: 2. Establishm ent of a nursery 3
- 2.1 Types of nurseries 3
- 2.2 Type of plant m aterial to be produced 4
- 2.3 Nursery area needed 6
- 2.4 Suitable sites for nurseries 8
- 2.5 Equipm ent and facilities 13
- 2.6 Design and layout of nurseries 27
- 2.7 Seed procurem ent, processing, and storage 30
- 3. Planning and records 37
- 3.1 Introduction 37
- 3.2 Planning 39
- 3.3 Records 41
- 4. Containers and growing m edia 46
- 4.1 Container types 46
- 4.2 Size of container 48
- 4.3 Obtaining potting m ixes 50
- 4.4 Symbiotic m icro-organism s 58
- 4.5 H arm ful organism s and unwanted seeds 61
- 4.6 Seedbeds 64
- 4.7 Cost of potting m ix 65
- 4.8 Sieving and m ixing 65
- 4.9 Filling pots 66
- 5. Sowing, germ ination and pricking-out 69
- 5.1 Introduction 69
- 5.2 Germ ination tests 69
- 5.3 Total quantity of seed required 72
- 5.4 Pre-treatm ent 74
- 5.5 Time of sowing 77
- 5.6 Direct sowing into containers versus sowing into seedbeds 80
- 5.7 Pricking-out 86
- 6. General cultural techniques 90
- 6.1 W atering 90
- 6.2 Shading 94
- 6.3 Weeding 98
- 6.4 Root-pruning 101
- 6.5 Shoot pruning 106
- 7. Hardening-off, grading, packing, and transportation 107
- 7.1 Hardening-off 107
- 7.2 Grading 108
- 7.3 Packing and transportation to plantation 111
- 8. Bare-rooted seedlings, stumps and wildings 114
- 8.1 Bare-root seedlings 114
- 8.2 S tum p s 117
- 8.3 W ildings 119
- 9. Vegetative propagation 121
- 9.1 Introduction 121
- 9.2 Cuttings 123
- 9.3 Layering 127
- 9.4 Grafting and budding 128
- 9.5 Division and separation 132
- 10. Protection: pests and diseases 134
- 10.1 In troduction 134
- 10.2 Insects 134
- 10.3 Control of insects 137
- 10.4 Pathogens 140
- 10.5 General disease control considerations 147
- 10 .6 A n im als 150.
- Notes:
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- "Forestry and Wildlife Division, Land Resources and Crop Production Department, Ministry of Agriculture, Eritrea."
- Errata slip tipped in.
- Bibliography: p. 152-153.
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- Copyright:
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