The following are the economic importance of forests for the country:
- Forest provides food to people and fodder to animals.
- Forest is a source of the raw materials of many forest-based industries such as the paper and pulp industry.
- Forests are the lifeline of the tribal population in India.
- Forest is the source of fuel for the rural population.
- Forests are the habitat of wild animals and they reduce the man-animal conflict which saves the loss of human property and life.
- Forest clean our environment for free that minimizing the health problems of the country's population and saving hospital expenditure.
- Forest provides us oxygen for free, during COVID-19's pandemic we realized the cost of oxygen.
- Forest beauty attracts tourists and it works as the source of earning of the local population.
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