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Assessment of Land Capability

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So far we have been concerned primarily with the problems of survey and planning on the intensively utilized cultivated land of Asia. But there still remain some limited areas of primary vegetation, much larger areas of secondary and terminal vegetation, and large areas of land with low population density and light use. It is to these lands that the techniques of the CSIRO Division of Land Research may be said to apply more particularly.

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