Performance of Medium term Agro-Forest treespecieson hard Laterite Soils

Abstract

A long term research was initiated in 1999 using medium term agro-forest trees in a shallow Andigama series soils having a hard laterite gravel layer. The present paper focuses on the growth and survival of the medium term forest tree species planted in 1999 and theirperformance by the year 2016. Acacia species had the fastest (