Volume : VI, Issue : III, March - 2017

The Fire Wood Problems in Rural Communities of Uttarakhand

Nisha, Pushpa, Jyoti Joshi

Abstract :

 For rural population and poor households domestic requirements including cooking food and heating the homes fuel wood is a necessity which puts direct pressure on the forests. Their importance is even higher for a state like Uttarakhand that has about sixty–five percent of its land area under forests. The selected villages lie in the higher or upper region in the hill state of Kumaun Himalayas. The remote areas of the hill state are untouched to the development activities. The female is the nucleus of the family and they have to fulfill the requirements related with the collection of firewood in which most of time and energy goes. Provided the alternative means for fuel, the time and energy better utilized in some other activities that can lead this economically poor area towards development. The present study aims to analyze the energy sources and related problems in the study area.

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Nisha, Pushpa, Jyoti Joshi, The Fire Wood Problems in Rural Communities of Uttarakhand, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : VOLUME-6 | ISSUE-3 | MARCH‾2017

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