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Remedial mesures suggested by fuelwood traders
Reduce fuel price Inprove haulage transport
Reliable fuelwood supply Training Busi. Mgt., machine use
FSD laws and restrictions must be relaxed All year fish supply
Improve roads Woodlots
Material support Loan
Figure 65 Measures suggested by traders to alleviate constraints in fuelwood trading
4.5 Fuelwood consumption
4.5.1. Socio-demographic profile of fuelwood consumers in fish smoking industry
Age, Gender, education and resident status of fuelwood consumers fish smokers
Fuelwood is consumed or used primarily by women 99.5 for smoking fish in coastal Ghana with 0.5 being men in the Volta Region Figure 66. Majority 75 of them are
aged between 19-50 years Figure 65. Approximately 50 of fuelwood consumers have had no formal education particularly in the Central Region Figure 67. The majority 50 of the
educated consumers have basic education i.e. primary-middlejunior secondary. Overall 99 of the fuelwood consumersfish smokers permanently resident in their communities across
regions surveyed Figure 68. Over 80 have been living in these communities for more than 10years i.e. 11-80 years Figure 69.
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Accra Central
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Region Age of fuelwood consumersfish smokers
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41-50 51-60
60
Figure 66 Age distribution among fuelwood consumers
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Central Western
All Regions
Fuelwood consumers
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Gender of fuelwood consumers
Female Male
Figure 67 Gender of fuelwood consumersfish smokers
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Region Educational status of fuelwood consumersfish smokers
None Primary
MiddleJSS SecondarySSS
Tertiary
Figure 68: Educational status of fuelwood consumersfish smokers
20 40
60 80
100 Volta
Greater Accra Central
Western All Regions
Fuelwood consumer
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Resident status of fuelwood consumers
Migrant Settler
Native
Figure 69: Residential status of fuelwood smokers
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Accra Central
Western All Regions
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Region No. of years fuelwood consumers have lived in their community
1--10 11--20
21-30 31-40
41-50 51-60
60
Figure 70 Number of years fuelwood consumersfish smokers have lived in their communities
Household characteristics of fuelwood consumers fish smokers
Majority of fuelwood consumers are married ranging from 73 in Central to 81 in the Volta Region. On average across regions, 18 of the consumers are single parents.
Household sizes for at least 80 of the traders range from 1-0 people with a few of them having 20 people Figure 70. The average across the regions is 8 people per household.
10 20
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70 80
90 100
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Region Size of fuelwood consumer households
1--10 11--20
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Figure 71 Size of fuelwood consumerfish smoker households
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4.5.2 The fish smoking businessenterprise
