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SAF 503 Practical Assignment

on
‘Ecology of Regeneration of Cedrus deodara’

SUBMITTED TO – SUBMITTED BY –

Dr Dinesh Gupta Sheetanshu Gupta

Assistant Professor, Silviculture and ID No - 2067


MSc Silviculture and Agroforestry - 2021
Agroforestry
Contents

• Brief introduction about the species

• Methods of propagation (Natural and Artificial Regeneration)

• Ecology of Regeneration
Cedrus deodara
Brief Introduction
• One of the most valued tree which comes under the family Pinaceae.

• Commonly found on the slopes of Western Himalayas.

(Elevation – 1220-3050 m)

• Tall, evergreen, conical crown with horizontal branches and drooping

branchlets.

• Light demander; can tolerate side shade in early stages.

• Drought sensitive in seedling stage; wind-firm and frost resistant but liable

to snow damage.
Methods of Propagation

Natural Regeneration:

Under favourable conditions (snowfall, good seed year, well distributed

rainfall, soil conditions with respect to raw humus and weed growth,

adequate sunlight under properly opened up crop), profuse natural

regeneration comes up, which may be tended to establish. Prolonged dry

spell after germination, in May-June, may, however, prove disastrous; as

also fire and/or uncontrolled grazing.


Artificial regeneration:

Deodar is both sown and planted.

Direct Sowing: It is done by broadcasting, or along contour lines

3 m apart in well-worked 30 cm wide terraces, continuous or

broken, or in patches of various sizes, 1.5 m x 0.5 m to 1.5 m x

1.5 m, spaced 2 m apart. These patches can serve the purpose of

temporary nurseries for the next year as surplus seedlings are

available for planting out; Sowing is done in November.


Planting: Nursery-raised seedlings, 2 to 3 years old, are planted

out in the field in auger-holes or in pits dug before hand in late

June-July, when rains have well set in. Seedlings are packed in

bundles, with wet moss round the roots, on a cloudy/rainy day;

roots should not be exposed to sun. Planting space varies with

various local factors; 2 m x 2 m for pure planting; 3 m x 3 m for

planting in mixture.
Ecology of Regeneration
Natural Regeneration of Deodar managed
under Uniform System
Species No.of seed bearers
retained/ha
Deodar 45-50
Kail 25-30

• As shade-bearer deodar is often mixed with light-demander kail (P.


wallichiana), seeding felling is first done to facilitate deodar
regeneration and once it comes up, overwood is further opened up in
order to further enhance the growth of deodar as well as to enable
kail regeneration to come in the blanks and complete the
regeneration.
• All well grown patches of advance growth are retained.

• Slash is cut and collected in heaps away from seed bearers

and advance growth and burnt in Oct/Nov (before snowfall).

• Grazing is allowed until a good seed year is obtained and

contour strips are cleared where there is dense undergrowth

of weeds and undecomposed or partially decomposed

needles. For example, Parrotia forms dense undergrowth in

Kashmir valley when canopy is opened up much and

hinders natural regeneration.


• Artificial regeneration is necessary to augment natural

regeneration in areas where natural regeneration is deficient or

poor, as the regeneration is not completely uniform over the entire

area.

• Overwood is removed in 2-3 stages once the regeneration is

established.

• Sometimes, poles and trees upto 40 cm diameter are retained as

part of future crop at the time of seeding felling. But in such cases,

as the resultant crop becomes uneven-aged, it is incorrect to

designate this system as uniform.


Natural Regeneration of Deodar managed
under Indian Irregular Shelterwood
When attempts to apply uniformSystem
system to Deodar Forests in Chakrata
Forest Division failed, the conversion to uniform was given up and
Indian Irregular Shelterwood System was adopted instead. Deodar
forests of U.P and Himachal Pradesh are generally worked under this
system.

• All overwood is removed after retaining 45-50 trees/ha depending

upon aspect and soil conditions.

• All suitable patches of advance growth as well as established poles

and immature trees upto half the rotation age are retained as part of

future crop.
• Felling should be of selection type (i.e, scattered single

mature trees are selected all over the area and felled to

enable regeneration) where the terrain is steep or

rugged. Thus, the opening of the canopy is irregular and

the resultant crop is uneven-aged.

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