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| | Vetiver grass in East China Highway Conference |
 | | The East China Highway Conference was held in Xiamen of Fujian Province, on 8-11 June. |
 | | The participants realized that vetiver could be a hot topic among engineers, as during the period from 1994-1996 there was 34,000 km of highway constructed in the country, many of these need to be protected and greenized. |
 | | vetiver technology for the protection of coastal dikes, river banks, fish pond, and vetiver for sand dune stabilization, saline soil amelioration, and edible fungi cultivation, etc. Following national economic reform many new constructions were carried out, which caused serious new soil erosion and became a key issue in soil erosion control in the country. |
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