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TEAK IN MEKONG

Photo 5-1 Teak plantation with cotton and corn in Han Chey commune, Kampong Cham province, 1936
(Source: archives forestières du Cambodge)

At the start of the first crop of the second in these areas was to plant not only forest
rainy season, 1-year old teak trees were trees with annual agricultural crops but
planted, and in the second crop of the complemented by fruit trees of medium
second rainy season, Angkanh (Cassia height and useful shrubs to create a set of
siameca Lamk.), a fast-growing fuelwood plants (of agricultural interest or analog) in
species was grown to create afforestation. the form of the four stages of tropical
vegetation of the dense forest type. This is
It has been called the elimination of
reforestation methods by intercropping or what the local populations in Java had been
birth of agroforestry in Indochina. Such practicing for a long time and that was
kind of reforestation-enrichment operations agroforestry principle they were trying to
taken into consideration: (1) all quantities develop in all tropical countries.
of wood harvested would lead to more or The future large trees were for timber
less uninhabited areas; (2) it would result in production, while in the middle of these
labor problems with the obligation to set up large trees, other smaller ones could be fruit
new villages, and create stable semi- trees, rubber trees, etc.; in red: shrub-like
agricultural areas, in addition to shifting plants were plants to provide fruit (banana,
cultivation previously used. The objective papaya…etc.), or to produce for other

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