Himalayas
Economic
Resources
- Economic conditions in the Himalayas partly depend on the limited resources available in different parts of that vast region of varied ecological zones.
- The principal activity is animal husbandry, but forestry, trade, and tourism are also important. The Himalayas abound in economic resources.
- Those include pockets of rich arable land, extensive grasslands and forests, workable mineral deposits, easy-to-harness waterpower, and great natural beauty.
Crops
- The most productive arable lands in the western Himalayas are in the Vale of Kashmir, the Kangra valley, the Sutlej River basin, and the terraces flanking the Ganges and Yamuna rivers in ....
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