The Bangladesh Energy Study, sponsored by the Planning Commission and published a year ago, reviewed the estimates and surveys made of fuelwood consumption and requirements in the country. It concluded that the consumption of domestic firewood and other forms of vege.tativc fuels is unknown.
Since the use of wood as fuel far exceeds other uses in volume importance a proper study is now considered necessary.

The paper describes the main physical, economic and statistical determinants of fuelwood consumption in Bangladesh. It proceeds to describe survey methods and strategy for determining this statistic. Supply estimates are then briefly described.