What are man's indispensable? Phone, cars, laptop, gadgets, home or food! may be money!
Have you ever had a thought about what serves you the most? Makes you comfortable , attending to your needs day and night. Of course, it's not your gadgets or your house maid.
They are the biggest, largest, oldest, most versatile living things you've ever seen. They are the green lanterns of nature, occurring in a state of splendor serving man in every and any way to his convenience. Apart from man, they also serve other animals. Of all life forms, they are known as the only producers except for few others.
They are called the Plants or should I say the green plants.
Plants serve man in a lot of way,
• Producing one if his greatest needs, oxygen
• Accounting for most of his foods through their seeds, fruits, leaves, modified stems and roots ranging from cereals, grains, legumes, vegetables, to roots and tubers.
• Provision of clothing materials made from plant fibres, dyes and tannings.
• Provision of rubber from plant saps for making clothings, shoes, equipments and tools
• Production of hardwoods and softwoods and sometimes leaves for construction of buildings and structures, furnitures, kitchen equipments and farming tools
• Production of medicines through seeds, leaves, fruits, and root extracts
• Raw materials (seed, fruits and leaves) for brewery and beverage industries
• Source of income and revenue through trading in grains, nuts, plants byproduct such as coal and peat from economic crop plants
• Beautification of man's environment and sustaining nature
Yet, being the basis of almost all our needs, little or no reservation is made available to the indispensables which are needed to be conserved. You cannot risk to imagine what and how we would live without them for they are indispensable.
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