18. Strengthening capacity on tree breeding techniques for drought-tolerant and good growth trees and promoting commercial forestry
1. Approach’s Outline and Features Experts explaining grafting techniques(Source: JICA Website) This approach focuses on the breeding of Melia Volkensii, a fast-growing indigenous tree, resistant to drought, on arid and semi-arid land.The timber produced from Melia Vokensii is hard and high quality. Thanks to tree breeding, the offspring generation of selected plus trees with superior phenotypes for growth, form, wood quality or other desired characteristics, are said to have a 14% higher stem v...