Overview
This project aimed to promote the use of high-value native tree species in northwest Vietnam. The project involved developing community nurseries, a greenhouse, and an understory planting activity at the headquarters of the new Muong La Nature Reserve. By incorporating native species into agroforestry systems, the initiative sought to enhance human livelihoods and preserve native biodiversity and the main results include:
- Established community nurseries.
- Germinated, grew, and used hundreds of seedlings of various native species in experiments to determine growth rates and preferred light levels.
- Developed nursery skills, including seed collecting and handling, seedling production, and fruit tree grafting, among local communities, particularly among Thai and Hmong groups.
- Generated preliminary silvics knowledge of selected timber species through experimentation.
- Integrated native forest trees and commercial species such as cinnamon into the landscape.
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