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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- REVISION/SETTLEMENT INTERACTIONS
- GEO-POLITICAL ISSUES: LAND RECLAMATION
- GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM (GIS)
- AFRICA: LOCATION, POSITION, SIZE AND POLITICAL DIVISION
- AFRICA: RELIEF AND DRAINAGE
- CLIMATE AND VEGETATION
- LUMBERING IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA (ZAIRE AND NIGERIA)
- IRRIGATION AGRICULTURE IN THE NILE AND NIGER BASIN
- PLANTATION AGRICULTURE IN WEST AND EAST AFRICA
- FRUIT FARMING IN MEDITERRANEAN REGIONS OF AFRICA
- Chapters 10
- Category SSS2
- Author ClassNotes Edu
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