LUMBERING IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA (ZAIRE AND NIGERIA) : LSUS
GEOGRAPHY SSS2 THIRD TERM
WEEK – SEVEN
LUMBERING IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA (ZAIRE AND NIGERIA)
REFERENCE
Essential Geography for Senior Secondary Schools by O.A. Iwena
LUMBERING IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA (ZAIRE AND NIGERIA)
Lumbering is defined as the felling of economic trees in the forest for domestic, industrial or commercial purposes.
Lumbering is practiced in Equatorial Africa regions like Zaire (around kinshesa, Ituri etc) and in Nigeria (around Benin City, Sapele, Port-Harcourt etc).
Favourable Factors For Lumbering in Zaire and Nigeria are:
- The presence of dense tropical rainforest.
- Presence of economic trees.
- Presence of wide market for the produscts.
- High demand for hardwood in foreign.... View More
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