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