Natural Vegetation — Social Science STD 9 — Question
Gujarat BoardEnglish MediumSTD 9Social ScienceNatural Vegetation2 Marks
Question
Give the reason : Forests are useful in the _ national development.
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Answer
Forests provide timber, fuel wood and various other things.
Various industries have developed such as paper-making, rayon, basket, small baskets, toys, mats and handicrafts items turpentine from the fluid of chid tree, sports goods, matchsticks, packing boxes for tea and medicines from pine and chid trees, fragrant sandalwood oil and other cosmetics from sandal- wood trees, leaf plates and bowls from khakhro leaves, catechu from kher trees and _ bidi from timru leaves.
Many herbal medicines like harde, baheda, ashwagandha, amla, cinchona, sarpagandha,
nilgiri, eucalyptus, etc. are obtained from forests.
Products like lac, resin, gum, cane, honey, ‘rubber, etc. are obtained from forests.
Forest provide employment to forest-dwellers. So forests are useful in the national development.
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