Management and Economic Aspects of Growing Aquilaria agallocha Roxb. in Bangladesh

Small-scale Forestry

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 459-478

  Rahman, Mizanur ^a   Nath, Nishi Muhan ^a   Sarker, Sanjib ^a   Adnan, Md ^a   Islam, Mahmuda ^a  

^a SHAHJALAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Agar plantation; Agar based enterprise; Artificial wounding; Financial analysis; Indigenous management

Indexed keywords

EVERGREEN TREE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE; INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; PLANTATION FORESTRY;

BANGLADESH;

AQUILARIA AGALLOCHA;

EID: 84945467489     PISSN: 18737617     EISSN: 18737854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11842-015-9298-6     Document Type: Article

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