POPULAR POPLARS
December 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLPOLITICAL leaders in Brussels have been pressed to promote the planting of poplar and willow trees across the European Union (EU) to promote rural development, soil stability and biological de-contamination of ground pollutants. The call has come from the United Nations' (UN) Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), which runs a statutory body called the International Poplar Commission. It has released a report explaining exactly why it loves poplars and willows. They are, it said, "among the fastest-growing trees in temperate regions", being ...
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