Costs and Efficiency of Bush Clearing By Arboricides In Karamoja

Abstract

The Uganda Forest Department staned to use arboricides to kiU weed trees in 1951, and by 1956 was using them on a field scale for canopy manipulation in tropical high forest. By 1954, when research into their use in bush eradication began, considerable experience had been acquired and this influenced the type of preliminary trials done in Karamoja. This study was made in the same region and among the same vegetative types as are found within the catchment area experiments; it was designed to provide data on the cost and efficiency of arboricides in bush eradication for the information of the Natural Resources Committee of the Uganda Government.