Question

Tribal people from India have a great contribution in production of lac. But it needs certain trees. Name at least two such trees which give food yield of lac. How is lac purified?

Answer 1

1. Like her, peepal, palas, kusum, babul, etc. are used for feeding lac insects during the practice of lac culture. 

2. Natural lac is contaminated and hence it is washed and purified. This helps to obtain shellac in pure form.