Question

What is the economic importance of the peninsular plateau?

Answer 1

Plateaus are storehouses of minerals. They have rich deposits of minerals.

• The Ghats are immeasurable sources of wood, Timber etc.
• The Western Ghats have rich water potentials.
• here inhabit a large variety of wild animals, birds etc. in the thickly wooded ghats
• Black Earth soils are very productive and are intensively given to cotton culture.