Marketing of wood fuels in Peshawar city
Marketing of wood fuels in Peshawar city
K. M. Siddiqui and Mohammad Amjad
ABSTRACT
In most Asian countries, the rural
population mainly depends upon non-commercial fuels to meet its domestic energy
needs. They do not purchase any fuel from the
market as fuelwood is a non-tradeable
commodity in rural areas. The land owners
obtain its supplies from their farmlands and
other people collect it as a free good from the
waste lands and public forests. But the situation
in urban areas is altogether different. Here
people purchase all fuels from the market to
meet their domestic energy needs. They mostly
use commercial fuels such as natural gas,
kerosene oil and liquified petroleum gas (LPG).
Those who use fuelwood and charcoal, they
also purchase it from the market. Thus in strict
commercial sense a market for woodfuels
exists only in urban areas. Each urban center
has a number of firewood sales depots which
sell fuelwood to the consumers. In some cases
the firewood sales depots also sell charcoal.
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March 1992
Vol. 42, Iss. 1
