Marketing of agroforestry products in Sindh province of Pakistan

MARKETING OF AGROFORESTRY PRODUCTS IN SINDH
PROVINCE OF PAKISTAN

THESIS

M.Sc. (Agri) Hons Agricultural Economics

BY

HABIBULLAH MAGSI
REG.NO. 2K5-AE-315

Supervisory committee:

Dr. Heman D. Lohano (Economist) Supervisor Mrs. Tahmina Mangan (Economist) Co-supervisor

Mr. Aijaz Aali Khooharo (Statistician) Co-supervisor

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
FACULTY OF AGRICULTURAL SOCIAL SCIENCES

SINDH AGRICULTURE UNIVERSITY TANDOJAM

2006

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1		Particulars List of Tables Acknowledgements Abstract Introduction	Page 1
	1.1	Objectives	3
2		Review of Literature	4
3		Materials and Methods	8
	3.1	Sampling procedure	8
	3.2	Data gathering Technique	9
	3.3	Marketing Margin	9
	3.4	Marketing Cost	10
	3.5	Net Margin	10
	3.6	Limitations of the study	11
4		Results	12
	4.1	Marketing System	12
	4.2	Marketing System of Agroforestry Products	12
	4.3	Marketing Structure Analysis	14
	4.4	Marketing Channels of Agroforestry Products	15
	4.5	Marketing Margin Analysis for Agroforestry wood products	19
	4.6	Agroforestry Marketing Issues in the Study Area
4		Discussion	24
5		Conclusion and Suggestions	27
		References	30
		Questionnaire	32

LIST OF TABLES AND CHARTS

TABLE	PARTICULARS	PAGE
4.1	Marketing Channels of Agroforestry Wood Products at Private	16
	Farm Lands in Sindh
4.1	Wood Product Percentage from Agroforest Trees	19
4.2	Marketing Margins of Acacia nilotica (Babul) Products	20
4.3	Marketing Margins of Eucalyptus camaldulensis Products	22

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

First and the foremost, I offer my humble thanks to Almighty Allah Who enlightened me to achieve this academic goal. The data for this thesis were funded by ALP project on Agroforestry entitled as «Economic Analysis on Agroforestry Plantations in Sindh Province Pakistan». I would like to express sincere gratitude to my honourable supervisor and Principal Investigator of the project Dr. Heman D. Lohano, Associate Professor and Chairman, Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agricultural Social Sciences, Sindh Agriculture University Tando Jam for his invaluable support and supervision both during the preparation of the proposal and the write up of the thesis, including data analysis, interpretation of results, the proof reading and constructing professional scientific papers.

My sincere gratitude also goes to my co-supervisors, Mrs. Tehmina Mangan, Lecturer, Department of Agricultural Economics and Mr. Aijaz Ali Khooharo, Assistanat Professor, Department of Statistics, Faculty of Agricultural Social Sciences, Sindh Agriculture University Tando Jam for their support and serving on my supervisory committee.

I am thankful to my all friends who facilitated me in conducting field survey. Finally, I thank my parents for their never-ending love and moral support.

ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF

For Master of Science (Agriculture) Honours

HABIBULLAH MAGSI

Major Agricultural Economics

TITLE: MARKETING OF AGROFORESTRY PRODUCTS IN SINDH

PROVINCE OF PAKISTAN

Pakistan is a forest poor country with very low cover of five percent of the total land as compared to the recommended level of 20-25 percent. Thus, agroforestry can help in achieving the national target of forest cover and in meeting the rising demand for wood and wood products. It is referred as plantation of trees on private agricultural land with main products; timber, mining-timber, fire-wood, pods, flowers, gum, forage etc., where as the major products are timber, mining-timber and firewood. Furthermore, it would not only generate additional income to farmers but it will also reclaim the soil conditions and is the main source of environmental benefits. In Pakistan, agroforestry contributes 46% of timber and 90% of firewood requirements whereas 14% of timber and 10% of firewood are being met from state forest only. Marketing structure and its efficiency determine how the consumer rupee is distributed among producer and different middlemen. The lower returns to the producers and high marketing margins to middlemen may result in inefficient agroforestry production system.

Key words: Sindh, Agroforestry, Marketing system,