Wood Technology
It
is a method to grow plants which is difficult to grow on land especially on
infertile, mountainous land. It is a technique in which old bamboos, branches
of trees and root wood of trees are used as support to provide a base for
germination of plants and their growth . These supports act as a
platform of soil to provide nutrition to plants which germinate and grow on
them. These pieces of wood are a suitable place for mosses and lichen to grow
which retain moisture for a longer duration of time and provide ideal condition
for plants to grow.
Old
bamboos and trunk of trees have very high nutritional components as slowly and
gradually it gets decomposed and mosses thrived on it (Plate: 3.2) retain water
for a longer duration of time. Moisture content added with favorable nutrients
catapult small plants, mosses and fern to easily thrive on it at some height
from ground soil.
