When choosing a crop tree, do I also need to enter the woody biomass?
The biomass of your perennial crop
trees in the annual existing CFT module is not automatically included but this should not be added into the biomass section because it is not considered permanent.
You should only account for out of crop biomass in the biomass section if the biomass is permanent and additional.
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