Abstract
Wild fruit trees are developing broadly in numerous nations, greater part of them bear fruits amid summer. Wild fruit assortments are eaten crude by the rural people and they are a rich wellspring of protein, starch, fat and different components, contrasted with developed cultivated fruits, they have not yet been considered as a source of elective food items. Numerous conceivably exploitable types of wild fruits and semi-domesticated species were analyzed in detail for their financial potential. The domesticated and less used wild fruits, give better monetary profits for a yearly premise. Individuals of numerous nations use these wild fruits as a source of income, especially for poor rural occupants and jobless young people by making an assortment of edible items, for example, jam, juice, sauce. The enterprise business was shown to the general population to urge them to embrace it in the form of a small village-level cottage industry.
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Abbreviations
- FAO:
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Food and Agriculture Organization
- GDP:
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Gross domestic product
- KFA:
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Kenya’s Forests Act
- TSS:
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Total Soluble Solids
- TTA:
-
Titratable Acidity
- WEFs:
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Wild edible fruits
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Awad, E.E.A., Mariod, A.A. (2019). Economic of Wild Fruits and It Is Contribution to Rural People. In: Mariod, A. (eds) Wild Fruits: Composition, Nutritional Value and Products. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31885-7_5
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