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Table 7.1 Types of players in marketing farm-grown tree products in
Isabela, the Philippines
Category
Frequency
1. Full-time farmer (arable plus trees)
10
2. Private tree plantation owner
3
3. Farmer and part-time fuelwood gatherer
13
4. Farmer and middleman of fuelwood
5
5. Farmer and charcoal maker
3
6. Full-time fuelwood gatherer
4
7. Charcoal maker and buyer of gmelina trees
3
8. Middleman of fuelwood
4
9. Retailer and money lender for fuelwood
11
10. Furniture maker/shop owner
8
Total
64 a
a Total number of respondents from two-stage sampling
Data gathering focused on the following elements:
Sources of tree-based products and key players involved (supply side)
Types of wood-based commodities, product flow, market channels, price move-
ment, intermediaries and buyers (demand side)
Issues related to markets and policies on tree-based product harvesting and
marketing
Secondary data from DENR and former tree planting project implementers
7.4 Findings
7.4.1
Types of Actors in the Gmelina Timber
and Fuelwood/Charcoal Chains
The two-step sampling procedure yielded a rich variety of actors involved in the
gmelina and fuelwood chains. Table 7.1 gives the overview. The classification typi-
fies people by their main outlook. A full-time farmer, for instance, is one who
grows different types of crops including trees for timber and fuelwood/charcoal,
whereas a full-time fuelwood gatherer earns his income from this activity only.
Other variants of entrepreneurship in the area depend on additional income-generating
activity such as acting as middleman, value-adding and derived demand such as in
the case of furniture shop-owner. Quantitatively in the Table, one might wonder
how the 13 timber-growing smallholders (categories 1 and 2) could keep the eight
furniture shops in stock. This could be a sampling anomaly but it may also be
indicative of that the furniture shops are in fact supplied largely by illegal timber
from the forest.
 
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