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Report 02. An interim report on influences of inoculation with nitrogen-fixing symbionts on reforestation efforts in Haiti


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dc.contributorAuburn University Librariesen_US
dc.contributor.otherAuburn Universityen_US
dc.contributor.otherSouth-East Consortium for International Developmenten_US
dc.creatorReid, R. Kenten_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-10T16:28:49Z
dc.date.available2019-09-10T16:28:49Z
dc.date.created1989-03en_US
dc.identifierUSAID (United States Agency for International Development). Contract no. 521-0122-C-00-7104-00en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11200/49592
dc.descriptionThe Haiti Agroforestry Research Project was a program to encourage Haitian farmers to plant fast growing trees as a cash crop. This project was part of an overall plan by USAID to curb the devastating erosion which was washing the top soil into the sea.en_US
dc.description.abstractMany of the tree species produced in the AOP are able to fix nitrogen when their roots are colonized with the appropriate symbiotic microorganisms. In order to ensure colonization, tree seeds are inoculated at planting with the appropriate micro-symbiont. This practice was started without rigorous testing in Haiti of the benefits of nursery inoculation with either inoculum obtained form the Nitrogen Fixation by Tropical Agricultural Legumes (Niftal) Project in Hawaii or from indigenous inoculum. The primary objective of the study described here was to define the gains, if any, resulting from inoculating tree species with N-fixing symbionts in the nursery. Additionally, since a major annual cost is buying the imported inoculum on Acacia auriculiformis. Finally, A. auriculiformis was fertilized with phosphorus to see if colonization could be improved. This interim report covers results from the first phase of the study. Morphological measurements were made and analyzed and those data are presented below. Additional work on the harvested seedlings will include shoot and root biomass and nutrient analysis. Representative seedlings from each of these treatment combinations were outplanted so development can be monitored. Three-month measurements are presented here, with final measurements of those seedlings to be made in October 1989.en_US
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dc.languageengen_US
dc.publisherAuburn, Ala. : Haiti Agroforestry Research Project, the South-East Consortium and Auburn Universityen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSECID/Auburn Agroforestry Report No. 2en_US
dc.rightsThis document is the property of the Auburn University Libraries and is intended for non-commercial use. Users of the document are asked to acknowledge the Auburn University Libraries.en_US
dc.subjectReforestation--Haitien_US
dc.subjectAgroforestry projects--Haitien_US
dc.subjectForests and forestry--Haitien_US
dc.subjectNitrogen--Fixation--Research--Haitien_US
dc.subjectNitrification--Haitien_US
dc.subjectNitrogen in agriculture--Haitien_US
dc.subjectNitrogen fertilizers--Haitien_US
dc.titleReport 02. An interim report on influences of inoculation with nitrogen-fixing symbionts on reforestation efforts in Haitien_US
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