FOOD TECHNOLOGY

FOOD WASTE REDUCTION AND SUSTAINABILITY

FOOD WASTE REDUCTION STRATEGIES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Clearcutting is
A
A timber harvesting practice where all trees larger than 20 feet tall are cut harvested.
B
When logging companies plant new saplings in an area bigger than 1 hectare.
C
A timber harvesting practice where all of the trees in a given area are harvested at the same time.
D
When forestry services clear out the underbrush in a given area.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -There are three major groups of timber harvest practices; clearcutting, shelterwood and selection systems.

Detailed explanation-2: -Clear-cutting is a silvicultural system that removes an entire stand of trees from an area of 1 ha or more, and greater than two tree heights in width, in a single harvesting operation (Figure 5). It can be highly profitable.

Detailed explanation-3: -Clearcutting, clearfelling or clearcut logging is a forestry/logging practice in which most or all trees in an area are uniformly cut down.

Detailed explanation-4: -Harvesting is the cutting and extraction of timber to roadside, usually during thinning or clearfelling.

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