The processing of rotan, a minor forest product from the tropical rain forest

Reference Type Conference Paper
Year of Publication
1979
Contributors Author: H. M. Simatupang
Secondary Title
Paper prepared for Eighth World Forestry Congress - Forests for People, October 1978, Jakarta, Indonesia
Series Title
Mitteilungen der Bundesforschungsanstalt für Forst- und Holzwirtschaft Reinbek bei Hamburg, no. 124
Pagination
158-178
Date Published
10/1978
Publisher
Kommissionsverlag Buchh. Max Wiedebusch
Conference Location
Hamburg-Reinbek
Language
English, German
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Collection Topic
Rainforest
Keywords
shifting cultivation
rainforests
rotan
Abstract
This is one page from an incomplete paper. It includes research about the cultivation of rotan. It talks of ladang shifting) cultivation and how it can become secondary jungle because other forms of forest are not useful. Sega rotan (Calamis caesius) should be planted at certain intervals and from east to west. The rest of the page tells how the fertilization process proceeds and how they attend to the growth and care of the plants.
Notes
World Forestry Congress, Jakarta, Indonesia Hamburg-Reinbek Federal Research Centre for Forestry and Forest Products Jan 1979. 2pp.
URL
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13455115
Conference Name
Eighth World Forestry Congress, Jakarta