Flora in the
Ganga-Brahmaputra basin
Staple Diet
Crops grown
Cash crops
Main Crop
Paddy
The cultivation of paddy requires sufficient water.
Paddy is grown in the areas where the amount of water of rainfall is high
Wheat, maize, sorghum, gram and millets
Fish and rice
Sugarcane and jute
Banana plantations are seen in some areas of the plain
Trees grown
Tropical deciduous trees
Teak, Sal and peepal
Thick bamboo groves are common in the Brahmaputra plain
Tea is grown in plantations in West Bengal and Assam
This delta is covered with the mangrove forest
Coniferous trees like pine,deodar and fir can be seen in places like Sikkim, Arunachal pradesh and Uttrakhand