The Tree Growers Tool Kit currently contains pamphlets, research papers and project reports that help farmers and field workers to answer the following questions:
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What are your business strengths and weaknesses?
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What products will you sell and where are your markets?
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What are the expected costs and returns?
- Are you ready to start a tree business?
Pamphlets:
This A5 Business Checklist is written in Tok-Pisin with illustrations for double-sided printing on single A4 sheet (folded to A5):
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Yu Redi long Statim Diwai Bisnis? (Are you ready to start a tree growing business?)
These A5 Tree Selectors and Tree Selection Packs are written in simple English with Tok-Pisin or Motu illustrations for double-sided printing on single A4 sheet (folded to A5):
- Which Trees Shall I Plant (Highlands Region)
- Which Trees Shall I Plant (Lowlands Region)
- Which Trees Shall I Plant (Central Province Lowlands)
Tree Selection Pack (Central Province Lowlands)
This A5 Tree Selector and Tree Selection Pack are written in Tok-Pisin with illustrations for double-sided printing on single A4 sheet (folded to A5):
- Which Trees Shall I Plant (East New Britain Province)
- Tree Selection Pack (East New Britain Province)
These A5 Tree Factsheets are written in Tok-Pisin with illustrations for double-sided printing on single A4 sheet (folded to A5):
- Bukubuk (Burckella obovata)
- Bukubuk (ENB Province)
- Bus Kalapulim (Calophyllum inophyllum)
- Bus Kalapulim (ENB Province)
- Galip (Canarium indica)
- Galip (ENB Province)
- Kamarere (Eucalyptus spp.)
- Kamarere (ENB Province)
- Kwila (Intsia bijuga)
- Kwila (ENB Province)
- Malas (Homalium foetidum)
- Malas (ENB Province)
- Rosewood (Pterocarpus indicus)
- Rosewood (ENB Province)
- Teak (Tectona grandis)
- Teak (ENB Province)
These A5 Tree Factsheets are written in simple English with Tok-Pisin or Motu illustrations for double-sided printing on single A4 sheet (folded to A5):
- Balsa (Ochroma pyramidale)
- Mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla)
- Mahogany (Central Province)
- Mango (Mangifera indica)
- Mango (Central Province)
- Rosewood (Pterocarpus indicus)
- Rosewood (Central Province)
- Sandalwood (Santalum macregorii)
- Sandalwood (Central Province)
- Teak (Tectona grandis)
- Teak (Central Province)
- Terminalia (Terminalia microcarpa)
- Terminalia (Central Province)
These Tree Growers Packs contain essential information about making money from trees, including meeting market specifications:
Further Reading:
Research papers
- Legislation and policy review
- Constraints of the Timber Authority harvest permit and options for improvement
- Reduced impact logging guidelines for small-scale forestry in PNG
- Landowners’ decision-making and small-scale commercial forestry in PNG
- Fostering commercial tree growing by small-scale landowners in PNG from a base in traditional agroforestry systems
- Ecoforestry central marketing units
- Value adding opportunities for community timber in local sawmills in Lae
Project reports
- Farmer needs and motivations
- Training needs analysis for teak growers
- Teak model estate & marketing plan
- Legal framework for smallholder woodlots
- Business plan development
- Balsa markets report
- PNG market analysis report for wood products
Tree fact sheets
- 30 Multipurpose trees for agroforestry in the pacific islands
- Calophyllum
- Kwila (1)
- Kwila (2)
- Pometia pinnata
- Rosewood
- Sandalwood (1)
- Sandalwood (2)
- Terminalia catappa