Question

What is the utility of lumber?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Timber has a wide variety of uses in con­struction and as an industrial raw material, but the most important single use for timber is as fuel. About 40 per cent of the total timber removed from forests all over the world is used in this way.

Timber has a wide variety of uses in con­struction and as an industrial raw material, but the most important single use for timber is as fuel. About 40 per cent of the total timber removed from forests all over the world is used in this way.However, the proportion of timber production used as fuel differs very much in different parts of the world, depending on the availability of other fuels such as coal, the degree of control exercised over the forests by govern­ments and the fuel requirements of the various countries.