ISHS Acta Horticulturae 531: II ISHS Conference on Fruit Production in the Tropics and Subtropics
SMALLHOLDER FRUIT TREE PRODUCTION EXPERIENCES OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN KENYA AND EASTERN AFRICA |
| Author: | M. van Eckert |
| Keywords: | economics, food processing, nursery, propagation, solar drying |
| Abstract:
Stakeholder consultation process workshops which have been conducted by ITFSP since 1995 to analyse the constraints in the smallholder tree crop sub-sector in Eastern and Southern Africa show that tree extension of government, NGO's and development institutions mainly focused on tree planting for fuel, fodder, soil fertility, environmental and conservation purposes. Little considerations were given to direct benefits from subsistence and market oriented smallholder fruit tree production. It was found that established nurseries in rural areas often could not be sustained due to the lack of farmers' demand for the produced forestry/agroforestry seedlings, low prices and the wrong species mix with trees, farmers were unwilling to pay for. | |
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