Deforestation: An Implication of High Rate of Unemployed and Low-Income Household Members in Rural Communities in Kebbi, Nigeria.

Deforestation is a major environmental issue in Northern Nigeria. Factors like unemployment and low-income among households in Northern Nigeria results to falling of trees for source of energy for domestic and commercial activities. Secondary dataset was analyzed using R-Programming. Variables describing the employed members of the household, energy sources for lighting fuel and energy sources for cooking fuel for the households were analyzed. Results from the histogram revealed that there are over 3000 households dependent on fuel wood as an energy source. Also, results from the Analysis of Variance revealed that annual income of the households has significant impact on cooking fuel sources (0.0104<0.05) and has a very strong significance on lighting fuel sources (0.000<0.05). The low-income rate of households was evident showing the relationship between employed members of the households with a very strong significance on annual income of the households (0.000375<0.05).