A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SOIL NUTRIENTS STATUS IN AN OIL PALM PLANTATION AND A TYPICAL RAINFOREST IN ETCH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF RIVERS STATE
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background Information The production of oil palm is as old as the history of the inhabitants of Rivers State. Few wild trees are of as much economic and social value to Nigerian farmers and the country as the oil palm tree, (Usoro, 1974). The oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq) no doubt is believed to have originated in ...
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