Understanding whether growth responses are due to changes in light interception, light-use efficiency (LUE) or both, and whether they are subject to treatment interactions could assist the design of more productive and light-use efficient plantations.
The coffee planters developed a highly efficient system of plantation enterprises and formed a closely knit elite that used its growing economic strength to ensure that the government served its interests.
For example, sugar is costly to establish, and thus is economically most efficient at large plantation scales.
This cotton was cheap ― and the British factories, by extension, so wonderfully efficient ― because plantation owners relied on slave labor and violent exploitation to keep down costs.
More information on the occurrence of SLF in this region is required to assist the efficient identification of potential plantation sites.
As compared to mono culture, exotic and native species mixed plantation could be more efficient in carbon sequestration.
As compared to mono culture, exotic and native species mixed plantation could be more efficient in carbon sequestration. 4.
The establishment of bioenergy plantations is a very efficient way of reducing CO2 emissions as far as land occupation and environmental impacts per functional unit are concerned.
Promoting these trees can also greatly enhance food security for communities occupying the mountain valleys in Northern Pakistan and would be efficient substitutes to exotic tree species plantations of large scale afforestation programmes.
Given that climate warming has already considerably extended the growing season in this region, northward transfer of genotypes could improve forest plantation productivity and enable more efficient mitigation of climate change.
While plantations are primarily considered an efficient means of producing timber, there is increasing interest in their potential contribution to biodiversity conservation.
