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How are forests useful to the people of Asia?
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Solution
About one-third of the land area of Asia is covered with forests. These forests provide hardwood, bamboo, sandalwood, and camphor. They also give other valuable products such as lac, resin, turpentine, honey, medicinal plants, and herbs. Natural rubber is obtained from the latex of rubber trees. The evergreen rainforests of the equatorial region and the monsoon forests of the tropical regions of Asia are the main sources of these products.
Softwood forests supply timber for making paper, pulp, newsprint, matchsticks, and synthetic fibers such as rayon. These are obtained from trees like birch, pine, cedar, and fir, which grow in the coniferous forests of northern Asia, especially Siberia.
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