Implementing Agency:
Department For International Development (EAPD)

Managing Institute:
University of Edinburgh

Contractor:
Natural Resources Institute

Project Code: 145-502-005	Start Date: Aug. 1, 1993	End Date: Mar. 31, 1996
Commitment: £53,000	Status: Completed	Type of Funding: Bilateral - TC

Project Objectives:
The wider objective of the project is the adoption of silvicultural systems that lead to socially, economically and biologically sustainable production in Chinese fir plantations. The immediate objectives are: To assist the Chinese Academy of Forestry coordinate a research programme to understand the social and biological processes leading to yield decline in Chinese fir plantations To identify and, if feasible within the project timetable, promote changes in site preparation and maintenance practice that will raise the economic and financial return to fir production while not disadvantaging the local communities who are dependent on forest farming and tree by-products. NRI are involved in the UK Management Support Team which aims to provide a means through which support can be given to consultants either with the form of direct, or by reference to particular publications or experts with specialist knowledge and provide a forum to review progress and achievements and recommend improvements to the consultants. The five Chinese scientists will visit NRI from 18-20 August 1993 to finalise plans for the chinese experiments and to visit NRI laboratories. A consultant will attend the final project workshop in China in 1996.