Yes, mixed species plantation is more sustainable than monoculture, but very difficult in management especially controlling competition of intra-sppecific
Monoculture is not good for environment. Nutrients in the soil will deplete after some years and it is evident from this plantation that trees on the roadside have more girth than the trees away from the road because the roadside ones gets some more natural fertiliser from underneath the road in the form of rotten roots of the past trees.
Hopea ponga, Vitex Altissima, Dalbergia and Grewia tiliaefolia are harder than teak. Have a farm of intercropping.
Yes, mixed species plantation is more sustainable than monoculture, but very difficult in management especially controlling competition of intra-sppecific
Monoculture is not good for environment. Nutrients in the soil will deplete after some years and it is evident from this plantation that trees on the roadside have more girth than the trees away from the road because the roadside ones gets some more natural fertiliser from underneath the road in the form of rotten roots of the past trees.