Forest Products

Forest products that are collected by people include food like fruit,roots,herbs and medicinal plants.People depend on fluewood to cook food,collect fodder for domestic animals and cut building meterial for housing;collect medicinal plants that have been known for generations to treat several aliments;and use a variety of NTFPs such as fiber,cane and gum,to make house hold articles,Woods from different species of trees are put to a variety of uses for the yoke of a bullock cart while hardwood is used for its axle.
These forest products are of gteat economic value as they are collected,sold and marketed .Forest dwellers and agricultural oeioke use these goods directly,while other people get them indirectly from the market treditional types of agriculture need forest meterial like branches and wood-ash which acts as a fertilizer for crops such as rice.Urban people use these forest resources indirectly as all their food and other goods come from agricultural areas that are dependent on the neibouring forests.