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close this bookSpecial Public Works Programmes - SPWP - Planting Trees - An Illustrated Technical Guide and Training Manual (ILO - UNDP, 1993, 190 p.)
close this folder5. Adapting planting techniques to different site conditions
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View the document5.1 Favourable sites
View the document5.2 Sites with high grass
View the document5.3 Waterlogged sites
View the document5.4 Dry sites
View the document5.5 Eroding slopes and rocky sites
View the document5.6 Steep slopes
View the document5.7 Sand dunes
View the document5.8 High altitudes with snow

5.6 Steep slopes

- On steep slopes a small horizontal platform has to be prepared where the planting hole will be dug.

- Work on a horizontal line to reduce physical effort.

Eroding slopes and rocky sites


Avoid using vehicles


One spoon fertilizer


Stones around seedling

Steep slopes


Make platform