Now we are just hours or at most a handful of days until the various valves of the Production Tree are fully tested and declared ready to go.

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The knowledge behind the practice of building the daldal is now known to all male members of the community, but some Irob men are regarded as more skilful than others in adapting and improving the daldal and in experimenting with different ways of using the niches that they have created for crop, grass and tree production.

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For each tree used in production, 100 are replanted through Vers' partnership with The Arbor Day Foundation and the U.S. Forestry Service.

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Dr Ray said that more research was needed in order to understand the underlying mechanism and identify what advantages the production of "reaction wood" offered to naturally growing tree.

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