Simarouba - A tree for dryland India

Small and marginal farmers in rainfed, dryland conditions can benefit by adding Simarouba to their repertoire of planting. This tree, a native of Central America, grows fast , is amenable to coppicing, has a non-edible oil bearing nut. The wood can be turned and is good for carpentry. The oil is itself medicinal and used as a malaria treatment.

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• simaruba
• drylands
• rainfed
• small
• marginal
• farmers

[feralkevin]

Why the horrible whistling!?

[zenrainman]

:) There were 300,000 people visiting the place over 4 days and that was crowd control happening. Please reduce volume to 0 to listen :):)

[feralkevin]

Wow, cool. I just went for a walk today. It started to rain, and I stopped underneath a street tree and watch it rain pretty hard for about a minute only. Then, almost alarmingly water started to race down the street, and gush from drainage pipes.  All that water only from 1 minute of rain, all gone, down as fast as possible to the storm drainage, and then the rain stopped and we're back to a drought. It's insane.

Thanks for the video!