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Not AvailableTo achieve any tangible progress in the areas identified above, easy access to, and unhindered availability of, Quality Planting Material (QPM) of agroforestry species is a prerequisite. And, to support this, nationally accepted guidelines are urgently needed to ensure production and supply of QPM. The guidelines presented here are focussed for Multi-Purpose Tree Species (MPTS), planted or tended by farmers and exempted from felling and transit regime by the state governments for promotion under agroforestry in different agro-ecological regions of the country. The MPTS include species of Acacia, Albizia, Bamboo, Casuarina, Eucalyptus, Grewia, Melia, Dalbergia, Populus, Prosopis, Salix, Terminalia and Ailanthus excelsa, Anthocephalus cadamba, Azadirachta indica, Gliricidia sepium, Gmelina arborea, Leucaena leucocephala, Santalum album, Tectona grandis and others. Therefore, Horticulture and Natural Resource Management (NRM) divisions of ICAR, ICAR-CAFRI; Centres of ICAR-AICRPAF; World Agroforestry (ICRAF); Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare (MoAFW; GOI), Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) and its various institutions; and representatives of nursery owners, farmers and relevant industries, along with more than 200 other stakeholders, have contributed to this initiative.Not Availabl