Question

what type of forest products were used by forest people before the implementation of forest law.explain.

Answer 1

Before the implementation of forest law, forest people used forest products in a multiple ways:

1. Eatables: Fruits, vegetables and tubers.
2. Medicine: Various herbs
3. Agricultural implements: Yokes as ploughs, bamboo for making fences, baskets and umbrellas.
4. Household items: scooped-out gourd as portable water bottle, leaves stitched to make disposable plates and cups, creepers as ropes and thorny bark of semur tree as vegetable graters
5. Oil: Oil for cooking and lighting lamps by crushing fruits of mahua trees.