Agriculture
Kot Adu is also an important agricultural area. Total area of Tehsil Kot Adu is 8,77,989 Acres of which 4,24,521 acres is under cultivation. Main Crops of the area include corn, cotton, rice, sugarcane, tobacco, wheat
Besides these, bajra, moong, mash, masoor and oil seed such as rape / mustard and sun flower are also grown in the district.
Fruits such as mango, citrus, guavas and pomegranates are the main grown in the Kot Adu City. Date, jaman, pears, falsa and banana are also grown in minor quantities in the district.
One another local fruit which is called a bare. It is one of the main fruit grown in this region.
Due to the floodings, the crops are now rare, especially cotton and wheat product affected by this flooding. So now majority of the agriculture lands are covered by sugarcane. People either sold these sugarcane to sugar mills or produce Jaggery from sugarcane.
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