Contribution of forest resources to rural development in Zalingei area, central Darfur state-Sudan [electronic resource]

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The main objective of the study is to clarify the contribution of forest resources to rural development in Zalingei ,locality-Central Darfur state in Sudan. The specific objectives included to identify quantities of fuel wood consumption by rural households, type of cooking stoves, housing, fences, and major causes of deforestation and desertification comforting the forest resources and trees in the study area, to know the types of fodder plants, tree parts use, who is collected the resources, source of products and prepare chick list of the major different trees uses, to identify types and level of forest benefits for respondents and to identify y relationships between respondents benefits from forest resources and some socio-economic variables. A field study was conducted on the area of study in May. June and July 2015, where a random sample composed of 227 household heads were personally interviewed using questionnaire prepared for the purposes of the study. Based upon a relevant literature review and theatrical framework a number of hypotheses on relationships between level of benefit from forest resources and some socio-economic variables were proposed. Several statistical methods were used in the analysis of field data, including frequency distributions, percentages, averages and ranges to describe the study variables. Also Chi square test was used in testing the study hypotheses. Cramer's V coefficients also were used to indicate the strength of the relationships between the level of benefit from forest resources and social and economic variables. The results showed that the total fuel wood consumption was 333.6 hectare/year and the deforestation ratio was 0.30 hectare year. The study findings indicated that statistically significant relationships (at level of .01) were found between level of benefits from forests resources and each of age, educational level, marital status, sex and family size. The study was concluded with a discussion of its major findings and a number of recommendations on how to increase the benefits from forest resources while achieving the sustainable development were introduced.

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