Hongqun Li1, Xiaoli Liu2,*, Zhenmin Lian3,RenheWang4, Yongbin Wang4, Yongyao Fu1 andDingyi Wang5
... of local peoples’ firewood collection in the core areas may provide some optimal nest habitat for the brown-eared pheasant.
... 
Mahfooz Khan* and Himayatullah Khan
... the use of electricity, firewood and natural gas as against animal dung cakes for cooking purpose which was the base category. The study concluded that the use natural gas for cooking was less expensive as compared to other alternative energy sources such as firewood, electricity and animal dung cakes. The study also concluded that family size has negative relationship with the use electricity and f...
Muhammad Shuaib Khan1, Shakeeb Ullah1, Nisha. A.R2, Muhammad Umar3, Muhammad Inamullah Malik1*, Syed Muhammad Kamal Shah1, A. Zaman1, Shakir Ullah1, Imdad Ullah1, Sumera Ali Khan4
...ing water, collection of firewood for domestic use and sale in the nearby local market to cope their daily needs. The present study was carried out in three different rural towns of Dera Ismail khan district of KP in the year 2016, where the house hold community members male and female keeping animals to cope their livelihood needs. By restoring proportionate sampling each group was comprised of 30 males 30 females. Animal’s owners were selected for the ...
Sana* and Abbas Ullah Jan
... weeding, harvesting and firewood collection. Multinomial Logistic analysis revealed that a child’s age, gender (male) and school distance (more than walking distance) were found positively associated with a child’s involvement in agriculture. Household characteristics, such as head’s education, monthly income and ownership of agricultural land were important negatively affecting the determinants of child involvement in agriculture.The s...
Stepanus Pakage*, Daud Krey, Trisiwi. Wahyu Widayati, Deny Anjelus Iyai, Agustinus Gatot Murwanto, Alnita Baaka, Daniel Yohanes Seseray, Djonly Woran
... that piglets, feed, and firewood had an effect on pig production. Pig farmers in Manokwari Regency have been allocatively efficient, but technically and economically inefficient. ...
Basheer Ahmad1, Anwar Ali1, Salman Ahmad1, Nowsherwan Zarif1* and Saif Ullah Khan1
... According to the study, firewood is the primary fuel source, and the local populations obtained 54% of their firewood from plantations, 24% from farms, and 22% from local purchases. The study revealed that 64% of respondents believe that the increasing usage of firewood in the area as a result of more trees means that people's consumption patterns have changed. When it came to the availab...
Socio economic impact of community plantation in Salarzai valley, Bajaur Agency, Khyber Pakhtunkhwah
Kaleem Mehmood1, Sultan Muhammad2 and Altaf Hussain3
...tions. The trend of more firewood use is also observed after plantation. Some portion of population also obtain low quality timber from these plantations such as small ballies etc. which is used in kacha, semi paka houses and sheds for livestock because the Chir plantation are not mature in the study area. These plantations help in creating the income opportunity of local communities by selling of wood like Eucalyptus specie which is cut after regular interval...
Babar Khan1, Muhammad Zafar Khan2 and Garee Khan2
...ir farmlands, and so the firewood pressure on natural forests has completely been alleviated by avoiding extraction of fuel wood and timber from natural forests.
Key words: Firewood, forest conservation, Bunji, WWF, Gilgit-Baltistan ...
Abdul Qayyum Khan, Bashir Ahmad Wani, Hakim Shah and S. Irfanullah
...g to the survey results, firewood emerged as the largest source of energy used for cooking and heating. The consumption of firewood was 2.35 maunds/household/week. Annually each person consumes 1.13 tons of firewood for cooking and heating. Among the other sources of energy, kerosene oil and natural gas were being consumed at the rate of 1.83 liters and 3.29 kilograms/household/week. A maj...
Muhammad Muslim and Hafiz Muhammad Sufyan Babar
...n from grazing, logging, firewood collection and plantation/reforestation may be a source of improvement of ground vegetation....
Fauzia Balqis Malik and Bashir Hussain Shah
... (shortage of timber and firewood) and in-tangible (like poor climate, degrading environment, vanishing wildlife and biodiversity and devastation by floods) ones. A population of over 126 million growing at an alarming rate of 3.1% does not permit to divert area from food crops to arboriculture and necessitates agroferestry (optional growing of trees and crops on the same land unit in temporal or/ and spatial arrangement) as a feasible option. This study is co...
Sahibazada M. Hafeez
... acute wood deficits and firewood is still the principal source of fuel for heating and cooking. There is an urgent need to reforest such areas and other waste lands with salt tolerant, fast-growing trees.
In order to identify salt tolerant tree species which could be grown in such areas, seeds of 26 salt tolerant species were procured from CSIRO Australia, plants raised in the nursery and then out planted in the field trial during September, 1990....
K. M. Siddiqui and Mohammad Amjad
... center
has a number of firewood sales depots which
sell fuelwood to the consumers. In some cases
the firewood sales depots also sell charcoal....
M. Ayaz
...p>3
of timber and firewood per man hour respectively.
Improved tools were found to have (30%) higher
productivity than conventional tools in tree felling and
conversion and therefore were recommended for
introduction in timber harvesting in Pakistan....
Muhammad Hafeez and Muhammad Afzal
...
elements, extraction of firewood and grazing of
livestock, as major factors affecting viability of
forests, they were studied with a few basic
socio-economic variables and their ultimate effect on
adjoining forests accounted. It has been concluded that
majority of the people around the Scrub Forests depend
almost entirely on state forests to meet their daily
basic needs of firewood and grazing of livestock....
Mohammad Ayaz and Gerhard Stohr
...oduction of timber and
firewood. It essentially consists of a set of definite operations of felling and conversion of
trees to suit the subsequent extraction and transportation system. The methods and means
of timber harvesting not only determine the magnitude of material to be extracted and economic gains of the operation but also the preservation of remaining stand and site....
Mahmood Iqbal Sheikh, R. W. Hussain and Saliheen Khan
...illion with an estimated firewood and coal consumption
of 74,654m3 and 171,000 tonnes respectively. Data were
collected from 60 sampled units throughout the province.
An average kiln was loaded 5 times during 1985-86. Mean
annual capacity and actual production was 377 and 327
thousand bricks per kiln. Average annual requirement and
actual consumption of firewood per sampled unit was
167m3 and 163...
Mohammad Hafeez
...ils. It is excellent for firewood and makes superior charcoal. It is an exceptionally high yielder of biomass....
Mohammad Ismail Zafar, Mohammad Shafiq and Ali Gohar
...n
short time forage and firewood in addition to its
effective in soil conservation even under the drought,
severe and unfavorable climatic conditions.
...
M. Ayaz
...ubic meter of timber and firewood
converted. The technical labor productivity for work
with improved tools also higher by about 24% and this
increase was highly significant. Improved tools reduced
the physical workload in the workers highly
significantly as shown by their lower average total
pulse by 9 beats/min. These results indicate that
introduction of improved tools and vocational training
of forest workers are very essential for higher labor
pro...
Wulf Killmann
...imber consumed goes into firewood (an estimated 16.6 million m3 per year). Of the registered annual consumption of 2.033 million m3 timber and timber products about 50% is imported. In some fields of timber utilization chipboard can be of help to ease the pressure on local
timber resources and foreign exchange of imports especially in furniture and interior wood works. Logically already as early as in the sixties the first chipboard mill...
G. M. Khattak, Mahmood Iqbal Sheikh and Abdul Khaliq
...age. And the scarcity of firewood forces the rural people to use anything combustible as fuel - animal dung, agricultural waste, leaves and twigs. And in towns, firewood prices are generally out of the reach of the common man. This scarcity is likely to be exacerbated as gas reserves dwindle and oil generated thermal power becomes more expensive....
Kashif Haleem, Basheer Ahmad, Muhammad Rayyan, Nowsherwan Zarif, Saif Ullah Khan, Salman Ahmad and Anwar Ali*
...nd timber (31.25%), with firewood being a minor reason (1.25%). A significant majority (78.75%) of respondents grow trees on their farmland to sell them and support their families, while 21.25% use the trees for personal purposes. Most respondents (61.25%) use LPG for cooking and heating due to its availability, while 32.5% also use firewood, and 6.25% use crop residues along with firewood...
