The tropical forests provide a whole whole of goods and services necessary to the survival and the development of the human societies. Among those, one can raise: production of wood , wood of service and wood-energy that of nonwoody forest products (PFNL), the existence of entertaining and tourist sites, sites intended for the rites magico-monk, and of sites for education and research, etc.
The economy of the village is based primarily on the taking away in forests, autoconsommés partly, and whose sale gets incomes which finance activities which finance activities concerned with the other sectors of the economy.
It is an economy tributary of the market external and depend on the money play whose driving sector is represented by the nonwoody forest products. The surveys carried out near the forest rural households show that forest resources others that the wood contribute for more than 70% of the capacity of investment and saving of the rural households.
These requirements cannot be satisfied that within the framework with a total strategy of installation and durable management of the forest resources, which systematically integrate the exploitation and the beneficiation nonwoody forest products by taking into account the whole of the ecological factors and socio economic intervening in the die of production and marketing of the PFNL. In spite of the constraints and the insufficiencies related to the mode of exploitation of the resources who provide them and at the mode of their valorization and their marketing, the PFNL are of economic interests and social some and continue to interest the rural households.