industrial resource. Indeed by 1942 26Toumey and Korstian’s substantial Seeding and Planting in the Practice of Forestry was already in its third edition, and the then USSR planted numerous shelterbelts to assist food production in the Ukraine and elsewhere. In the tropics and subtropics, South Africa had, by 1945, created 180,000 ha of plantations of P. patula, P. elliottii, P. taeda and some Eucalyptus spp. in Mpumalanga (Eastern Transvaal) province alone, Queensland (Australia) had 9800 ha of exotic P. elliottii plantations and native Araucaria cunninghamii (27Ryan and Shea, 1977) and in India, 80,000 ha of teak had been planted (28Griffith, 1942) and many trials of Eucalyptus spp. set up. 29Khan and Chaudhary, 1961). Before 1945 the main plantations in tropical America were on a small scale for protective purposes around cities, and for fuelwood, railway sleepers and pit props. The most extensive early plantations were in the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil from 1905 to 1915 at the instigation of Edmundo Navarro de Andrade, head of forestry services for the Paulista Railway Company. In 1950 Brazil had close to half a million hectares of planted eucalypts, a larger area than any other country.
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Toumey J, Korstian C (1942) Seeding and planting in the practice of forestry: a manual for the guidance of forestry students, foresters, nurserymen, forest owners, and farmers. Third edition Publisher Wiley New York 1942 27 Ryan T and Shea G (1977) Exotic pine plantations in Queensland and the role of the Beerwah-Beerburrum Forests. Post consultation tour notes No. 8 Third World Consultation of Forest tree Breeding. FAO Canberra 28 Griffith A L (1942) teak plantation technique/ Silviculture. Indian Forest Records 5: 123-219. 29 Khan, M.A.W. and Chaudhary, N.R. (1961) Eucalypt trials in India. Proceedings of the 10th AllIndia Silvicultural Conference, Dehra Dun, pp. 535–545. 26
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