Deccan Plateau about 10% in Western Ghats. Except in developed areas of certain river valleys, double-cropping is rare. Rice is the predominant crop in high-rainfall areas and sorghum in low-rainfall areas. Other crops of significance include cotton, tobacco, oilseeds, and sugar cane. Coffee, tea, coconuts, areca, pepper, rubber, cashew nuts, tapioca, and cardamom are widely grown on plantations in the Nilgiri Hills and on the western slopes of the Western Ghats. Cultivation of Jatropha has recently received more attention due to the Jatropha incentives in India. Deccan Plateau The Deccan Plateau is a large plateau in western and southern India. It rises
Hemimont Plateau Hemimont Plateau Hemimont Plateau (, ‘Plato Hemimont’ \pla-'to 'he-mi-mont\) is the ice-covered plateau of elevation about 1600 m in southern Graham Land, Antarctica situated midway between Loubet Coast and Fallières Coast on the west, and Bowman Coast on the east, and extending 100 km from the heads of Finsterwalder Glacier and Demorest Glacier on the north to Neny Glacier on the south. Its higher southern part rises to over 1700 m and features McLeod Hill, Beacon Hill and Armadillo Hill. The plateau is named after the Roman province of Hemimont in Southeastern Bulgaria. Hemimont Plateau is centred at . British