Abstract:
The harvesting importance and the introduction in economic
circuit of non-wood forest products, especially forest fruits, mushrooms,
game reside both under economic aspect, representing a proportion over
10% from the business number realized by many County Forest
Administrations and mostly from the social point of view, through the
capital amount in rural zones where the population incomes come almost
exclusive from agricultural activities. The aim of this paper was to highlight
the most important non-wood forest products from Teleorman County and
to analyze the social and economic impact of those from Teleorman county,
Romania. The NWFPs were grouped in four categories, namely Mushrooms
(Boletus edulis and Lactarius piperatus), Tree products (Linden flowers,
oak seeds), Understory plants (Rubus idaeus, Mentha piperita) and Animal
origin (Lepus europaeus, Squalius cephalus). Within the research method it
was used the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) which use an interface of
multi-criteria system. Based on the processing data in the Expert Choice
Desktop software, it was found that the most important non-wood forest
products were forest fruits (raspberries), mushrooms (Penny bun) and those
of animal origin (European hare). This kind of analysis it can be addressed
to the managers who wants to perform the activities inside of the company
such as making some statistics about the relative consumption of some
products.
