Agreiculture
The
whole country is richly cultivated . Owing to the pernicious svstem of Pathan
land tenure prevailing , whereby all lands are periodically redistributed among
the land-owners,and therefore change hands, it is worth no cultivator’s while
to devote more care or labour to the soil than suffices to satisfy his wants.
The land is , however ,so fertile that very little labour suffices to produce
good crops .
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The principal crop in the country is
the rice crop . To this all riverain lands and lands irrigated by rice grown in
certain localities of Upper Swat , such as Ghalegai and Maniar , is famous
throughout the Panjab , and is said to
surpass in excellence the Bara rice of Peshawar . Clover is in places also
largely grown as a fodder crop in the spring , on riverain lands , before the
autumn rice crop is sown on them . On unirigated lands . what , barley and dhal
form the more common spring crops , and maize and millet the autumn crop .
Owing to the abudant rainfall in this country , the rain crops , except in Sam
Ranizai , are generally very rich and but seldom fail .
