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Poplar is one of the fast growing industrial woods which can be grown as a mono crop as well as in association with agricultural crops. Its wood being light, homogenous and odourless is suitable for match splints, plywood, ply board, packing cases, sports goods, artificial limbs, furniture, pulp paper, wood wool, light constructional timber, pencils, furniture etc. Poplar being a deciduous species adds tremendous amount of leaf litter to the soil and is considered to be one of the best species for agroforestry. The species has performed well in India especially above latitude 28° North.Poplar grows well in the subtropical climate where the temperature extremes are not too severe and springs are free from late frost. It requires loam to sandy loam, deep fertile, well drained soils with assured irrigation. It does not perform well on saline, alkaline ( pH > 8.0 ), dry sandy soils, water logged areas and hard clays.

A light preparatory irrigation is given so that the soil has proper moisture at the time of ploughing. The field has to be leveled after ploughing. One deep ploughing upto 25-30 cm depth is desirable. This is followed by deep harrowing once in either direction and then planking with heavy roller or ‘Sohaga’. Phosphatic and Potassium fertilizers should be added at this point followed by a round of harrowing. Each block of nursery should be divided in standard sized beds, which should be 5-6 m in width and 15 m in length perpendicular to the irrigation channels, so that one channel irrigates a row of beds on either side of the channel. As far as possible, the main irrigation channel should run in North-South direction and side irrigation channels which irrigate individual beds should be in East-West direction. One meter wide inspection path should be retained in between two adjoining rows of beds.
Cuttings made from one year old wood of the main stem of young healthy and vigorous plants give better results. Cuttings obtained from the middle of the main shoot with diameter between 1-3 cms perform better. Plants must be given a clean cut and splitting must be avoided. The cutting should be prepared much in advance. Each cutting should be at least 1 cm thick and it is not desirable to have more than 2.5 cms thick set of cuttings. The length of the cuttings should be about 20 cms and as far as possible the upper cut of the cutting should be slightly above the bud. After preparation of the cuttings, these should be covered with wet gunny bags to avoid desiccation. Before planting, the cuttings should be soaked in fresh water (not stagnant) for 24 hours.

The cuttings should be given treatment against termites (0.5% emulsion Aldrex i.e. 250 ml Aldrex 30 E.C. should be thoroughly mixed in 50 litres of water and cuttings should be soaked in emulsion for 10 minutes). Thereafter the cuttings should be treated with Emissan-6 (250 grams of this powder should be dissolved in a small quantity of water and then diluted with 50 litres of water. Cutting treated with Aldrex should be transferred to drums containing Emissan solution and kept submerged for 10 minutes. The cuttings stored in fresh water should be taken out only at the time of planting and not earlier.The best time of planting is mid February. Planting distance followed is 80 cm row to row and 60 cm plant to plant. Before planting, hole should be made with the planting rod whose lower end is flattened and sharpened like a screw driver. The cutting should be planted in the hole with thinner end up in such a way that the upper portion is just 2 mm above the ground level. After planting, the soil around the plant to be compacted gently but firmly.
Each poplar plant needs approximately 20-25 m2 space for its optimum growth. One year old Entire Trans Plants (ETPs) without any co-leader or branches and with naked root (without any ball of earth) are planted in the field from mid-January to February end in pits of size 50cm X 50cm X 100cm. The spacing to be adopted for block plantation is generally 5m X 4m apart (500 plants per hectare ) and for single line or field boundary plantation plant to plant distance is kept at 3m. The plants may be soaked for about 48 hours in running fresh water before planting. To avoid fungal infection, lower one meter of the poplar transplant should be dipped in 0.15 percent solution of Emissan-6 for about 20 minutes and for termite protection for 10 minutes in 0.25 percent Aldrix solution or alternatively for protection against termites about 400g of deoiled neem cake can be mixed with soil to be refilled in pits.

Planting should preferably be done by two men so that one man holds the plant in erect position and the other fills the pit and compacts the earth around it. After planting, the pits should be filled with top soil and FYM in a ratio of 1 : 1 mixed with 10-20g BHC and 50g P2O5. Proper compacting of the soil and immediate irrigation after plantation enhances the chances of survival of the plants. First year casualities should be beaten up with sturdy ETPs not less than 5 m tall in January-February of the following year. After that no beating up should be done as the new plants are not able to catch up with rest of the plants.

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