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Article Title: Rural Household Fuel wood Consumption: Implication for Sustainable Production Practices of Biomass Energy Resources in Nigeria
by Ayanwuyi, E.

Abstract:
Biomass source of energy is essential in human�s life since man depends on it for cooking and heating. Fuel wood is one of the oldest biomass sources of energy known and used by man, now the population is increasing and the rate of consumption of fuelwood is increasing. This results in over dependence on the natural forest resources leading to deforestation. Available studies on fuelwood demand and supply support this assumption and indicate a continuously rising in demand of fuelwood, notably from natural forest. This paper seeks to identify energy sources of rural household, examine the effect of energy sources on rural household and describe sustainable biomass energy resources production practices to ameliorate problems of fuelwood shortage in the future. Evidence suggests that the demands for fuelwood in addition to other sources of energy are supplied from agroforestry, afforestation, short rotation coppice (SRC) and crop residue systems. In order to meet the requirements of various environments and different farmers there would be need to diversify and planted several fast-growing tree- species. It is concluded that the effect of fuelwood consumption could be minimized by producing fuelwood on agricultural land, degraded land and in forest plantation through species site matching and proper management. There should be a condition that would enable biomass wood energy policy and planning where fuelwood production strategy should be developed with prime objective of making each state in Nigeria self-sufficient, by decentralizing the area based on wood energy planning as wood energy situation and problems vary from one state to the other in Nigeria.

Keywords: Rural household, Consumption, Sustainable, Production, Biomass Energy.

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