Why did lenders and tenders penetrate the forest
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Small-scale rural enterprises (SSEs) as a whole are a major source of rural livelihood in developing countries, often next only to agriculture in terms of current rural employment. As the capacity of agriculture to generate additional livelihoods progressively declines, more rural people in future will have to turn to employment in small-scale enterprises.
Within the small enterprise total, the largest component is accounted for by small-scale processing and manufacturing enterprises (SSIs). In the six countries1/ reported on SSIs accounted for 37 to 80 percent by number of all enterprises and 42 to 63 percent of all small-scale enterprise employment.
1/Fisseha, Y. Basic features of rural small-scale forest-based processing enterprises. (In this publication).
The six countries covered are Bangladesh (1978/80), Egypt (1981/2), Honduras (1979/80), Jamaica (1978/80), Sierra Leone (1974/5), and Zambia (1985).
Within the rural SSI total, forest-based rural processing enterprises (FB-SSIs) accounted for from 13 to 37 percent of total manufacturing enterprise numbers and for 16 to 35 percent of employment in the total manufacturing group; usually ranking second only to garments among rural manufacturing activities.2/ In many developing countries, small-scale forest-based rural enterprises constitute an important part of the rural sector, and of the overall forestry and forest industry activity. Table 1 summarises information on magnitude and selected characteristics of the FB-SSI group.
2/In all but one of the countries reported on, fuelwood production and other small enterprise activities not operating from a fixed location were not recorded. As fuelwood production is known to involve large numbers of people, the total size of snail forest based production enterprise activity is therefore probably usually substantially larger than that of just processing enterprises.