Pakistan has a variety of natural resources including fertile soil in the Indus Basin and mountains, forests in mountainous and coastal regions, minerals like oil, gas, coal and metals, and agriculture with cash crops of cotton, sugarcane, tobacco and oilseeds and food crops such as wheat, rice, maize and fruits and vegetables.

1. RESOURCES OF PAKISTAN
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2. Resources
Human Natural
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3. Natural
Soil Forests Minerals Agriculture
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4. Soil
Indus Basin
Soil
Mountain
Soils
Sandy
Deserts Soils
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5. Forests
Mountainous
Forests
Sub-
Mountainous
Dry-Western
Mountainous
Canal Forests
Riverine
Forests
Coastal
Forest
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6. Minerals
Mineral Oil Natural Gas Coal Copper Gypsum Chromite Iron Ore
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7. Agriculture
Cash Crops Food Crop
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8. Cash Crop
Cotton Sugarcane Tobacco Oilseeds
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9. Food Crops
Wheat Rice Maize (Corn)
Sorghum & Millets
(Jowar and Bajra)
Pulses Barley
Fruits and
Vegetable
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