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In the process of our consultations during pilot survey an issue immediately emerged 36 . This
was about how saw mills and furniture units are operating in SIZ locations in spite of virtually
no timber products can be extracted due to its ban for a long time now. Hence, an investigation
was carried out in all the major SIZ areas as to how these enterprises are surviving. In all, 34
units across SIZ areas were interviewed, which included both saw mills and furniture units.
Interestingly, many saw mills had furniture units or timber trading or timber logging. Hence,
given the scope of this brief study and small sample size of saw milling units, we processed the
data lumping them together as our main issue was to look into the production and investment
trends of such units.
1.4.4 Mapping of Actors and Flows
As the major theme of the study is related to mapping for actors, activities and volume, and the
analysis on value chain, the following five major steps are involved in the process:
- Mapping for core steps in the value chain
- Mapping for actors
- Mapping for number of actors and jobs
- Mapping for volume of products
- Mapping for geographical flows, and finally
- Mapping for the values at different levels of the value chain.
Mapping core steps in the value chain
Typically, the first step is to find the different core processes in the value chain. In other words,
this entails the processes that occur from raw material through to final consumption of end
products. As the present study identifies the chains along the collection of SRF products up to
final destination it excludes processes involved in converting into final products through processes
(e.g., saw milling, log making, furniture making, fish drying, etc). In other words, the study aims
to map marketing chains only. However, from different perspectives, as already mentioned, the
study investigates a few processing activities centered around SRF products, such as saw milling
and furniture making enterprises.
Mapping for actors
Now that the main marketing chins are mapped, it is possible to move on to the actors – the
people who are involved in the value chain. In other words, who the actors that are involved in
the chains and what they actually do and what are their roles in the value chains (See Annexes B
and C).
In many value chains, especially in small or weaker markets, there is often no pure specialization.
One actor may take on several different roles. One has to find out the main occupation of this actor
to categorize it accordingly.
Mapping for number of actors and jobs
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This was particularly mentioned by IPAC-CoP in a meeting of the study team with IPAC and personnel in
Khulna, 9 March 2010.
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