This study examined the economic importance of exploiting forest products in Enugu
State, Nigeria using 120 respondents. The study showed that most of the household heads were
males aged between 31 and 50 years, and engaged in different forestry activities such as
gathering, processing and marketing. Lack of access to modern technology and the forms in which
products were marketed among other factors were major reasons weakening employment
provision/generation from the forest products by rural households. The regression results, showed
that access to modern forest products harvesting/processing technology (Te) and relative
contribution of forest output in total household economy (Ro) were statistically significant at 5%
level in explaining the observed variability in the dependent variable (E) based on semi-logarithmic
model. It was recommended that government should encourage the stakeholders involved in forest
product activities by importing the required machinery, without restriction. This will lead to
production of value added products and attraction of more employment to both rural households
and communities.