Silviculture is the practice of controlling the establishment, growth, composition, health, and quality of forests to meet diverse needs and values. The practices include spacing, weeding, pruning and thinning.<\/span><\/p>\n Plantation Silviculture aims to develop silvicultural techniques which help deliver sustainable plantation forest management based on a scientific understanding of how forests function. Research is founded upon ecological and physiological understanding of tree growth and development over time. Therefore the activities involve all stages of tree and forest development and the impact of different strategies upon the outputs from forests.<\/span><\/p>\n Research provides information to support the development of national forestry policy and advice to forest sector, forest nurseries, tree seed producers, other research establishments, the academia such as universities and other tertiary institutions. Research Programmes<\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a8<\/span> Weeding Studies<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a8<\/span> Nutrition Studies<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a8<\/span> Land Preparation Studies<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a8<\/span> Correlated Curve Trend Management Trials<\/span><\/p>\n Achievements<\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a8<\/span> Established spacing prescriptions, thinning and pruning regimes for the different commercial species for various end products.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a8<\/span> Developed yield models and tables for most of the traditionally grown exotics in Zimbabwe.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a8<\/span> Site indexing for exotic species in Silvicultural zones in Zimbabwe.<\/span><\/p>\n Current research priorities<\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n [vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1436530910893{background-color: #32a363 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_wp_custommenu nav_menu=”53″ el_class=”bgig”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text] Plantation Silviculture [\/vc_column_text][vc_separator style=”dotted”][vc_column_text] Silviculture is the practice of controlling the establishment, growth, composition, health, and quality of forests to meet diverse needs and values. The practices include spacing, weeding, pruning and thinning. Plantation Silviculture aims to develop silvicultural techniques which help deliver sustainable plantation forest management based on a scientific understanding of how forests function. Research is founded upon ecological and physiological understanding of tree growth and development over time. Therefore the activities involve all stages of tree and forest development and the impact of different strategies upon the outputs from forests. Research provides information to support the development of national forestry policy and advice to forest sector, forest nurseries, tree seed producers, other research establishments, the academia such as universities and other tertiary institutions. Research Programmes \u00a8 Weeding Studies \u00a8 Nutrition Studies \u00a8 Land Preparation Studies \u00a8 Correlated Curve Trend Management Trials Achievements \u00a8 Established spacing prescriptions, thinning and pruning regimes for the different commercial species for various end products. \u00a8 Developed yield models and tables for most of the traditionally grown exotics in Zimbabwe. \u00a8 Site indexing for exotic species in Silvicultural zones in Zimbabwe. Some common Silvicultural operations. Slashing Spraying Pruning Weeding Current research priorities Site species matching Site Classification Silvicultural techniques for Acacia mearnsii [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":7921,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7944","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forestry.co.zw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forestry.co.zw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forestry.co.zw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forestry.co.zw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forestry.co.zw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7944"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.forestry.co.zw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8771,"href":"http:\/\/www.forestry.co.zw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7944\/revisions\/8771"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forestry.co.zw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forestry.co.zw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nSome common Silvicultural operations<\/span><\/strong>.
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\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Slashing<\/span><\/em><\/td>\n Spraying<\/span><\/em><\/td>\n Pruning<\/span><\/em><\/td>\n Weeding<\/span><\/em><\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n \n
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