Selected Dynamics of Marketing of Homestead Agroforestry Products: A Case Study

摘要

Despite the increased recognition of the significance of market dynamics of homestead forestry, research on the subject has remained strikingly limited. This research focuses on selected aspects of marketing of homestead forestry products in two areas(Habilashdip and Chunati Unions) in the district of Chittagong. The study mainly probes into principal actors in the market, channel of marketing (for example grower-middlemen, middlemen-consumer etc.) the trends on domestic consumption and sale of homestead agroforestry products, and the major problems (for example absence of cooperative, poor storage facility, middlemen dependency) associated with marketing. A number of measures for better marketing of homestead agroforestry products have been suggested. The article ends with an exhortation for increased research on marketing of homestead forestry.