Present consumption and forecasting of sawnwood in Arusha and Moshi municipalities
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Date
2008-06
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Sokoine University of Agriculture
Abstract
carried out in Arusha and Moshi Municipalities for the year 2007, 2012 and’2017 to
determine the consumption of sawnwood in the target years. The sampling units
were obtained from a sampling frame of a list of Wards in each municipality bv
random selection. A sampling intensity of 30 % of the population was applied in all
Questionnaire on specially prep were used to obtain data from the
interviewees and data from
respective public offices. The was doze usfrm SPSS and MS excel
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Arusha Municipality and 4 904.5C~ > f CI SHVn-.¥CC., were
respectively of sawnwood. In Moshi Municipality' about
consumed was hardwood. The per 1000 capita consumptions for —her in Arusha
indicating that Arusha
consumed nearly 2.50 times more sawnwood than Moshi Municipality. The high
incomes in the area influenced the greater consumption of sawnwood in Arusha
Municipality than in Moshi Municipality'. Forecasted consumptions for Arusha
108.05m3 for 2007, 329.724m3 for 2012 and 1006.29m3 in 2017.
While in Moshi the consumption forecasts are 41.80 m3 in 2007, 200.70 for 2012
and 331.30m3 in 2017. From these results the consumption of timber in the two
Municipalities shows to be increasing, all types of hardwood timber species
The study on Present Consumption and Forecasting of sawnwood Consumption was
consumed included the lesser known. There is a large demand of sawntimber in both
Municipality are
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es were collected from registers in
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and the remaining 5 307.49 m3 was hardwood, repres
f of sawnwood
consumed in 2006. In Arusha Munlcmalitv softwood
interviewees were selected randomly.
and Moshi Municipalities were 86.44 nT and 33.98 mJ
programmes. The results of consumed
cases. From the selected wards
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Municipalities and that their sources were too far, about 1000 km away. It is
recommended that more efforts are needed through afforestation by increasing areas
under forests and by following sustainable forest management procedures
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Master Dissertation
Keywords
Consumption, Forecasting, Sawnwood, Arusha, Moshi