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This booklet is the third in a series of practical handbooks designed to provide practical guidelines on exporting for producers.

This booklet is the second in a series aiming to provide practical information in an easyreference format to help anyone in the business, or wishing to enter it, research the market and make contacts before developing or investing in an exportoriented enterprise.

Small scale farming families account for the large majority of population in most countries of E & C Africa.

Mango is a tropical crop whose economic utilisation could be greatly improved.

The utilisation of marginal and degraded lands, often associated with regions of high population densities, has high international priority for food and fuel production, erosion control and conservation.

Most developing countries still depend heavily on imported agricultural equipment from the developed world, and many of these imports are high cost, inappropriate to countries’ needs, difficult to maintain in remote areas and could to a large extent be replaced by locally manufactured alternatives.

This directory is a revised edition of the ‘Directory of Appropriate Technology Institutions in the Commonwealth’, which was published in 1977.