As part of Novella Africa programme on ‘Domestication of AB Trees in Africa’, ICRAF aims to develop jointly, with national partners in participating countries, options for appropriate propagation and management practices for AB trees, to enhance the efficiency, level and stability of tree production. Its outputs are globally applicable or adaptable propagation and nursery management guidelines. It is in the context of this project that this protocol is written to give guidelines on conducts research and seedlings development activities. Allanblackia seedling industry is not well established and there is a need to organise better the overall nursery system so as to improve the availability of seedlings and promote appropriate site and species combinations. With seed propagation technique turning as difficult to implement, vegetative propagation is seen as a possibility to select superior germplasm and bring this important resource into the farmers’ fields.
The manual has been developed with input from many Allanblackia domestication persons from Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Tanzania and I thank all contributors for their efforts that have allowed me to put together this document. No thanks would be complete without recognizing Dr. Ian Dawson for tireless edited this manual. I hope that you will find it useful and I would be pleased to receive comments and suggestions to improve and revise it.
Citation :
Munjuga, M. D. Ofori, C. Sawe, E. Asaah, P. Anegbeh, T. Peprah, M. Mpanda, L. Mwaura, E. Mtui, C., Sirito, A. Atangana, S. Henneh, Z. Tchoundjeu, R. Jamnadass, and A.J. Simons. 2008. Allanblackia propagation protocol. World Agroforestry Center. ISBN 978-92-9059-231-0 https://apps.