Getting Trees Into Farmers' Fields: Success of Rural Nurseries in Distributing High Quality Planting Material in Cameroon

Small-scale Forestry

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 403-420

  Degrande, Ann ^a   Tadjo, Patrick ^b   Takoutsing, Bertin ^a   Asaah, Ebenezar ^a   Tsobeng, Alain ^a   Tchoundjeu, Zac ^a  

^a World Agroforestry Centre   (Cameroon)

^b Ministere des Forets et de la Faune (MINFOF) Delegation Regionale du Nord   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

Agroforestry; Efficiency; Seedling supply; Tree domestication; Vegetative propagation

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; CULTIVATION; FOREST RESOURCE; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; NURSE PLANT; SEEDLING; TREE PLANTING; VEGETATIVE PROPAGATION;

CAMEROON;

EID: 84884532057     PISSN: 18737617     EISSN: 18737854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11842-012-9220-4     Document Type: Article

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