Because firewood grows all year round, the trees will replace both the summer and winter crops.
Despite the fact that there are many potential forest products, only firewood, tree and grass fodder, and leaf litter significantly contribute to the household economy.
For commodities such as firewood and drinking and cooking water, the matter is more complex: they are inputs in household production.
This reflects a pattern in which firewood collected from adjacent forests represents an important input to household income for all sample households.
While forests can be cropped for timber trade, they are also intensively cut for firewood.
Between the bank face and occupied rooms is a firewood drying room, protecting inner walls from the damp ground, using stored logs as additional insulation.
These production figures do not take into account off-cuts, sawdust and leaf biomass being used as firewood.
One of the most profitable ' crops ' for farmers was wood for firewood and housing beams.
