How were people benefitted with the trade in forest products?

How were people benefitted with the trade in forest products?
Answer:

  • Many communities left their traditional occupations and started trading in forest products.
  • This happened not only in India but across the world. For example, with the growing demand for rubber in the mid-19th century, the Mundurucu people of Brazilian Amazon who lived in villages on high ground, began to collect latex from wild rubber trees for supplying to traders.
  • Gradually, they descended to live in trading ports and became completely dependent on traders.