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Table 6 Results of the ranking of factors considered as threats to wild edible plants.
| Factors | Respondents | Total | Rank | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| *N1 | N2 | N3 | N4 | N5 | N6 | J1 | J2 | S1 | S2 | T1 | T2 | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | |||
| Agricultural land expansion | 9 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 16 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 120 | 1 |
| Over- grazing | 9 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 106 | 2 |
| Over-harvesting | 4 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 53 | 3 |
| Uncontrolled Fire setting | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 43 | 4 |
| Fuel wood collection | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 5 |
