1,691 Akee Wood Industrial Wood of Blighia sapida, known as ‘achin’ or ‘tsana’, is mainly used for light construction and furniture, but sometimes also for casks, boxes, crates, food containers, packing cases, tool handles, paddles, pestles, mortars, handicrafts, carving and turnery. It is suitable for interior trim, joinery and railway sleepers. In Ghana, it is used as a substitute for niangon (Heritiera utilis (Sprague) Sprague). The wood is also used as firewood and for charcoal production. 8,832