Rehabilitation of degraded lands in Malaysia through research and development

Abd. Latif Mohmod, . and L. H. Ang, . (2011) Rehabilitation of degraded lands in Malaysia through research and development. [Proceedings Paper]

Rehabilitation of degraded lands via tree planting promotes environmental benefits and is considered as part of the activity that promotes sustainable management of land resources that has a positive global impact on climate change. Forest Research Institute Malaysia FRIM since her embryonic stage in 1929 has started to rehabilitate degraded lands such as farm land from alienated natural forests. Degraded lands such as poorly stocked logged-over forests degraded secondary forest grasslands and problematic soils were then trial planted with timber tree species as a greening effort of turning the lowproductivity sites into a wood production area. For the last eight decades of research and development activities FRIM has successfully turn problematic soils adverse urban site degraded secondary forests and degraded sites logged-over forests into green sites. Some of the green sites are demonstration plots globally. These green sites are continually visited by various seed dispersal agents and gradually turning them into a biodiversity enriched site. This paper shares the successful cases of rehabilitation projects through research and development activities conducted by FRIM.

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Rehabilitation of degraded lands via tree planting promotes environmental benefits and is considered as part of the activity that promotes sustainable management of land resources that has a positive global impact on climate change. Forest Research Institute Malaysia FRIM since her embryonic stage in 1929 has started to rehabilitate degraded lands such as farm land from alienated natural forests. Degraded lands such as poorly stocked logged-over forests degraded secondary forest grasslands and problematic soils were then trial planted with timber tree species as a greening effort of turning the lowproductivity sites into a wood production area. For the last eight decades of research and development activities FRIM has successfully turn problematic soils adverse urban site degraded secondary forests and degraded sites logged-over forests into green sites. Some of the green sites are demonstration plots globally. These green sites are continually visited by various seed dispersal agents and gradually turning them into a biodiversity enriched site. This paper shares the successful cases of rehabilitation projects through research and development activities conducted by FRIM.

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Item Type:	Proceedings Paper
Additional Information:	18 ref. QH 541.5 R27 I61 2011
AGROVOC Term:	Land rehabilitation
AGROVOC Term:	Greening
AGROVOC Term:	Trees
AGROVOC Term:	Replanting
AGROVOC Term:	Agricultural demonstration
AGROVOC Term:	Demonstration farms
AGROVOC Term:	Malaysia
Geographical Term:	MALAYSIA
Depositing User:	Ms. Suzila Mohamad Kasim
Last Modified:	24 Apr 2025 05:14
URI:	http://webagris.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/11564

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