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प्रश्न
List some direct and indirect advantages from forests.
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Direct Advantages :
- Forests provide timber for construction purposes, furniture, toys, railway sleepers, sports goods, and wood carving ; and softwood, bamboo, and grass for pulp, paper, and plywood.
- Forests also provide products such as fruits, flowers, medicinal herbs and plants, beeswax, honey, turpentine oil, lac, and resin.
- Forests provide fodder for cattle.
- Forests are a shelter or natural habitat for wildlife.
- Forests are major tourist attractions.
Indirect Advantages :
- Forests moderate the temperature of a place.
- Forests protect the land from soil erosion by reducing the flow of floodwaters.
- Forests help in increasing soil fertility by providing humus.
- Forests help in increasing water vapour in the atmosphere, thereby helping in cloud formation that causes rainfall.
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