From Sand to Second Crops

November 1, 2005

MOST people are unfamiliar with cemara udang (Casuarina equisetifolia). Plant lovers know this tree usually as a bonsai tree. Thats why when the tree can now be grown on Samas Beach, Bantul regency, Yogyakarta, many decorative plant traders are going there to buy up this plant. It costs only Rp500,000 in Samas. In Jakarta, the price may be tenfold, said Suhardi, a forestry professor at Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, who initiated the mass pl

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