This is the establishment repot of a Cordia africana breeding seed orchard (BSO) located in Menagesha Suba forest, 2290-2329 masl with the mean annual rainfall of 1073mm., with humus rich forest soil, approximately 0.79 ha.

The BSO is planned and established using a randomized and unbalanced block design, planted in a continuous series of blocks. The seedlings are raised from different family and provenance seed collections originating from different parts of Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda. The collections represent 23 provenances that includes 54 families and 20 bulk collections in the 17 blocks, planted in 54 rows with distance between rows being 2m and plant spacing 2m.

PATSPO/ICRAF has prepared similar establishment reports for all the BSOs established through the project.