The Returns from the collection and sale of non- timber forest products are often low due to weak market linkage, low and fluctuating prices and poor quality of the products.As a result, these products often fail to gain recognition for their contribution to the livelihood of the people and this in turn resulted in forest conversion for short-term economic benefit from agriculture/grazing by forest fringe farmers.This therefore calls for designing strategies which could possibly reduce the destruction of these forests by the creation of appropriate market linkage through which the primary...
The Returns from the collection and sale of non- timber forest products are often low due to weak market linkage, low and fluctuating prices and poor ...
