Geography, SS 3, Week 3
Topic: Lumbering
Content:
- Definition of Lumbering
- Favourable factors for lumbering
- Methods of lumbering
- Economic Importance of lumbering
- Problems and solution of lumbering
Definition of Lumbering: It is defined as the felling of economic trees in the forest, which can be used in domestic, industrial or commerce purpose.
Favourable factors for Lumbering
- The presence of dense tropical forest provides ready sources of valuable timber
- Presence of many economic trees
- Presence of wide market for timber products within the country
- High demand for hardwood in foreign counties
- High demand of timber as fuel
- Efficient saw mill industries to process the raw timber
Economic Importance of Lumbering
- Lumbering provides foreign exchange through the export of timber to overseas countries
- Lumbering provides employment for people who are involved in lumbering and related activities
- Lumbering provides raw materials like timber for timber processing industries
- Timber is used for the construction of canoe and boats
- Timber serves as a source of income to government by licenses and permits given to the timber construction
- Trees in the forest helps to control soil erosion as well as serving as wind breaks
Problems of Lumbering
- Exploitation of timber causes soil erosion
- It leads to the depletion of natural forests product
- It results in the high cost of transporting forest products
- It results in the leaching of soil
- Deforestation can cause flooding
- There is problem in high cost of foreign goods
- It also leads to the disappearance of wild life
Solutions to Lumbering
- Roads should be constructed round lumbering areas for easy transportation of logs
- Bush fallowing should be discouraged
- Bush burning should be discouraged
- Forest guards should be employed to check illegal felling and ensure planting of new trees
- Afforestation that is the policy of planting of two trees in an area where one tree is cut should be encouraged
- Re – Afforestation; that is the practice of clearing the bush of bad tree and planning valuable ones to replace them should also be encouraged
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