Area closure is a protection system to improve land with degraded vegetation and/or soil, by excluding livestock grazing and applying initial inputs and continuous maintenance. Once recovery is taking place through natural regeneration, area closures can become part of the agricultural system, thereby improving forage quantity and quality and also enhancing the fertility of land.
This technology is aimed at the creation of pistachio plantations on gentle slopes to improve the land’s productivity and to rehabilitate the arid land in the hill zone.
La régénération naturelle assistée (RNA) est une technique agro-forestière qui consiste à protéger et entretenir les espèces ligneuses poussant naturellement dans un champ ou dans des espaces sylvo-pastoraux.