Improving Commercial Possibilities of Non-wood Forest Products from Leyte, the Philippines
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Non-wood Forest Products
This paper describes an attempt to integrate the assessment of some non-wood forest products (NWFPs) in the framework of a standard forest inventory. The study is restricted mainly to medicinal and aromatic plants, i.e., herbal NWFPs, a group that has economic importance in the hill regions of Nepal. Several specific difficulties are discussed. They arise from the fact that a regular forest inv...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Tropical Research
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0116-0710
DOI: 10.32945/atr2931.2007