AGRICULTURE AND REVENUE 259

water is abundant in a warm, moist climate, there rice
is grown during the hot weather months. In Kashmir,
in the Peshawur Valley and its borderland, Swat, and
even in the valleys leading up to the Afridi Tirah, rice
is cultivated. In the Bara valley of Tirah indeed the
rice is reckoned to be of a specially fine quality, and is
in much demand in
northern markets.
Rice is also cultivated
in the valleys of Baluchistan,
 but not so
much in Afghanistan,
where the water-supply
 by means of irrigation
 is plentiful, but
the air is dry and the
hot weather short.
Amongst the most
important agricultural
products of India tea, coffee, fruit, and jute must be included,
Jute is grown chiefly in Bengal ; tea and coffee in such
positions as will ensure a fairly equable temperature, with
plenty of moisture. Tea can hardly be said to be a
comon product of the plains of
ua AREA Ei India, although it grows
at comparatively low altitudes
 in Ceylon. It is
cultivated in the Dun, or
valley, that lies between
the foothills of the Himalayas
 and the Siwaliks ; in
Kangra (also a Himalayan
valley of low elevation) ;
on the lower slopes of the
Himalayas below Darjiling
 ; in Assam and in Ceylon. It will flourish at an
altitude as high as 7000 feet above sea; and it is notable
that tea grown at the highest altitudes is reckoned the best
in point of flavour, though the yield is inferior to that

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