Implementing Agency:
Department For International Development (NRRD)

Managing Institute:
NRIL (Natural Resources International)

Contractor:
University of Wales, Bangor

Project Code: R4855 583-656-003	Start Date: June 1, 1992	End Date: Mar. 31, 1993
Commitment: £32874	Status: Completed	Type of Funding: Bilateral - TDR

Project Background:
Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania, have established silvicultural trials in which Pinus patula and Cupressus lusitanica are being planted in replicated plots with initial spacing form 1.13 to 3.14m. Survival and rate of growth are determined. OFI were asked to co-operate by determining wood and pulping properties and the degree to which they are influenced by initial spacing. Very little is known of the effect of any silvicultural treatment on pulp properties and it was agreed to use material from a planned, replicated trial to generate some information.

Project Objectives:
The objectives of this project in the current year to collect material and to determine wood density. The project will be transferred to the Wood Science Department of the University of Wales, Bangor, who will determine morphological and chemical characteristics of the wood and its pulping properties.