| | Encyclopedia topic: Gangetic Plains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06) |
 | | The River Ganga has been depositing the natural alluvial soil (A fine-grained fertile soil deposited by water flowing over flood plains or in river beds) in these flood plain (A low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding) s for millennia. |
 | | As a result of this process of natural fertilisation, the Gangetic Plains are numbered among the most bountiful agricultural areas of the world. |
 | | The Gangetic Plains are also known as "the food bowl of India". |
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