What Are the importance or roles of the land resources to philippines' development?

Question

i refer to philippines as the whole country. and i need examples. tnx

Answer 1

The Philippines are richly endowed with mineral and forest resources. The principal minerals are gold, copper, iron, chromite, manganese, salt, and coal. Other minerals found here include silver, lead, mercury, limestone, petroleum, nickel, and uranium.

About 27 per cent of the land of the Philippines is considered arable. In the northern islands the soils are chiefly of volcanic origin; coral limestone is an important constituent of the soils in the southern islands. In general the soils of the archipelago are of poor quality.

Plants and Animals

About 37 per cent of the Philippines is covered by forest or woodland. Among the trees are the banyan, many varieties of palm, trees yielding rubber, and many indigenous trees with extremely hard wood such as apitong, yacal, lauan, camagón, ipil, white and red narra, and mayapis. Bamboo and cinnamon, clove, and pepper plants grow wild, as do numerous species of orchid. One of the most valuable indigenous plants is the abaca, or Manila hemp, a plantain, the fibre of which is used in making cordage, textiles, and hats. Mangrove trees and nipa palms grow in coastal swamps, and considerable areas of the uplands are covered by coarse grasses of little value for cattle. Except for rodents, comparatively few varieties of mammals are found in the islands. The most important are the domesticated water buffalo called the carabao, several species of deer, wild and domesticated pigs, the mongoose, and a variety of humped cattle. Reptiles are numerous, and the islands contain about 760 species of birds, including colourful parrots. Coastal waters teem with marine fauna, particularly molluscs, for which the Philippines are noted. Pearl oysters are abundant around the Sulu Archipelago, in the extreme south-west, and Sulu pearls are famous.