2008-'09 - Kerala Forest Research Institute
2008-'09 - Kerala Forest Research Institute
2008-'09 - Kerala Forest Research Institute
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Annual Report <strong>2008</strong>-09<br />
Data retrieval from weather stations<br />
Nilambur, Veluppadam and Marayoor.<br />
Data from the already established weather<br />
stations were retrieved via Wireless Data<br />
Transmission mechanism.Hourly data<br />
on temperature, relative humidity, wind<br />
speed, wind direction, solar radiation and<br />
rainfall for June 2007 onwards was<br />
available for Nilambur, from January<br />
<strong>2008</strong> was available for Peechi, from March<br />
<strong>2008</strong> for Veluppadam and from July <strong>2008</strong><br />
for Marayur etc. Daily weather data is<br />
displayed and given for researchers.<br />
Establishment of Clonal Multiplication Area (CMA) of teak in KFRI campus<br />
As part of tree improvement programmes for teak in <strong>Kerala</strong>, KFRI had selected 50<br />
plus trees during 1980's from plantations of teak located in Waynad, Nilambur,<br />
Konni and Thenmala <strong>Forest</strong> Divisions. Using the recently developed technique<br />
for clonal multiplication, 30 plus trees<br />
were successfully cloned in KFRI and<br />
clonal gardens were raised using rooted<br />
ramets of these plus trees at Emangad<br />
(Nilambur), Kalkulam (Nilambur),<br />
Decent Mukku (Quilon), and at<br />
Chettikulam (Thrissur). Some of the<br />
clones have exhibited exceptionally<br />
good growth in height and girth during<br />
the initial months of field trial. In<br />
order to facilitate a detailed multilocational<br />
field study, production and<br />
field planting of sufficient number of<br />
rooted ramets of all the promising plus<br />
trees was found necessary. Thus a<br />
Clonal garden established at KFRI<br />
Clonal Multiplication Area (CMA) was<br />
established during 2005-2009.<br />
For establishment of a CMA, about 750 rooted cuttings were produced by cloning<br />
10 selected superior teak plus trees. These cloned teak plants were planted in the<br />
nursery area of the <strong>Institute</strong> campus during the month of August, <strong>2008</strong>. The spacing<br />
provided was 1mx1m between plants. All the clones were planted in a linear design<br />
in 4 different blocks. Each block was separated by sufficient space provided between<br />
them. When these plants grew and attained a height of about 1m they were cut<br />
back and allowed to branch profusely, so that they developed into hedge plants.<br />
<strong>Kerala</strong> <strong>Forest</strong> <strong>Research</strong> <strong>Institute</strong><br />
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