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What is seed ball?

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(i) Seed ball is an ancient Japanese technique of encasing seeds in a mixture of clay and soil humus (also in Cow dung) and scattering them on to suitable ground, not planting of trees manually.
(ii) This method is suitable for barren and degraded lands for tree regeneration and vegetation before monsoon period where the suitable dispersal agents become rare. Seed ball is a technique of human aided seed dispersal,
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