Agroforestry and Management of Trees in Bunya County, Mayuge District, Uganda

Table 2

Priority woody species of Bunya and their uses. Shown are use values and component category use values. Also shown are proportions of respondents mentioning the species and those who have planted/are planning to plant the species. The total use values are larger than component category use values because category use values less than 0.1 have been excluded.

Species	Total use value	Use value by category					Respondents mentioning species (%)	Respondents who have planted species (%)	Respondents planning to plant species (%)
		Edible fruit	Timber	Construction poles and wood	Firewood	Income
Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam.	1.30	0.93	0.13	0.02	0.07	0.06	99	72	31
Mangifera indica L.	1.23	0.93	0.03		0.11	0.07	99	87	31
Milicia excelsa (Welw.) C. Berg	1.03	0.01	0.57	0.32	0.04	0.02	73	42	15
Persea americana Mill.	1.01	0.80	0.01		0.03	0.06	86	67	24
Maesopsis eminii Engl.	1.00		0.46	0.23	0.19	0.06	67	46	55
Ficus natalensis Hochst.	0.83	0.01	0.13	0.09	0.11		33	51	10
Markhamia lutea (Benth.) K. Schum.	0.68		0.13	0.41	0.06	0.02	50	43	6
Canarium schweinfurthii Engl.	0.57	0.37	0.08	0.02	0.06	0.01	47	22	3
Citrus sinensis (L.) Osb.	0.56	0.41			0.04	0.04	30	17	13
Pinus spp.	0.50	0.01	0.22	0.09	0.01	0.08	39	23	43
Coffea canephora Froehner	0.50	0.04			0.01	0.44	30	53	16
Carica papaya L.	0.46	0.40				0.03	44	44	8
Albizia coriaria	0.37		0.17	0.07	0.03		26	23	1
Theobroma cacao L.	0.18	0.07				0.11	51	11	20