pine sap has many uses

Ordinary forest is called an ecosystem unity in the pine sap has many benefits form of a stretch of land containing biological resources dominated by trees. Forest is a natural resource that has a lot of influence on human life. Humans interact with the forest to meet the needs of his life. Forests have various aspects of the benefits for human life both perceived direct and indirect benefits.

Forests produce plants that are beneficial to humans, for example pine plants. Pine mekusii is the only type of pine that grows native in Indonesia. P. merkusii is included in the multipurpose tree species that are continuously developed and expanded for future cultivation for timber production, sap production, and land conservation. In Java, pine or tusam is known as a producer of wood, resin and gondorukem that can be further processed so as to have a higher economic value.

This pine plant has an important role, because besides being a pioneer plant, pine shell can be used as fuel and its ashes are used for fertilizer mixture, because it contains potassium, pine leaf extract has potential as bioherbisida to control the growth of weeds in plants. In addition, the peculiarity of pine trees that produce further processed sap will have a high economic value. The sap produced by pine is gondorukem and turpentine which is used in batik, plastic, soap, printing ink, plitur, etc., while turpentine is used as a solvent of paint.