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Community-based tree and forest product enterprises: market analysis and development, booklet D

Identify products, markets and means of marketing

Year of publication 2003

Author Office of Assistant Director-General (Forestry Department);Forestry Economics and Policy Division;Forest Products Division

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The aim of Phase 2 is to select the most promising products and gather information for their further development, identifying potential markets and means of marketing. At the end of this phase, interest groups will be formed to further develop each of the selected products, and a team will be formed to undertake Phase 3.

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