ROLE OF COMMUNITY BASED FOREST ENTERPRISES AND CONTRIBUTION IN LIVELIHOODS

ROLE OF COMMUNITY BASED FOREST ENTERPRISES AND CONTRIBUTION IN LIVELIHOODS

With the objective of exploring of involvement of identified poor in the employment in the company, benefits sharing mechanism of the company between different stakeholders, and possible role of community based forest based enterprises in livelihoods upliftment and to recommend some possible measures of improving community-based enterprises a focus group discussion was done in the presence of 25 individuals from different sectors. The discussion showed that the community forest involved in the development of park have been generating good supplementary income for livelihood. Hence, it can be concluded that such a noble acts have great potential for income generation at the local level, which can increase the additional income of involved users and finally support their livelihood as well as encourage to develop another community-based forest enterprises. In addition, due consideration in the marketing of the product is highly recommended. The major things from the group discussion were that the forest production is so less that it’s not being able to fulfill the demand of the community users too. The major policy lacking and unusual rules to CF was found to be the main thing lacking in the development of the cf.