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Discuss the potentiality and present status of horticulture in the Western and central Himalaya.

  • UPSC 2013
  • Agriculture

The Western Himalaya is the Punjab or Kashmir Himalaya between the Indus and the Sutlej — Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh and Himachal Pradesh; the Central or Kumaun Himalaya runs from the Sutlej to the Kali across Uttarakhand, following Sir Sidney Gerald Burrard's longitudinal division of the range.

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