<P> Comprising the northeastern part of the Deccan Plateau, the Telangana Plateau has an area of about 148,000 km, a north - south length of about 770 km, and an east - west width of about 515 km . </P> <P> The plateau is drained by the Godavari River taking a southeasterly course; by the Krishna River, which divides the peneplain into two regions; and by the Pennai Aaru River flowing in a northerly direction . The plateau's forests are moist deciduous, dry deciduous, and tropical thorn . </P> <P> Most of the population of the region is engaged in agriculture; cereals, oilseeds, cotton, and pulses (legumes) are the major crops . There are multipurpose irrigation and hydroelectric - power projects, including the Pochampad, Bhaira Vanitippa, and Upper Pennai Aaru . Industries (located in Hyderabad, Warangal, and Kurnool) produce cotton textiles, sugar, foodstuffs, tobacco, paper, machine tools, and pharmaceuticals . Cottage industries are forest - based (timber, firewood, charcoal, bamboo products) and mineral - based (asbestos, coal, chromite, iron ore, mica, and kyanite). </P> <P> The northwestern part of the plateau is made up of lava flows or igneous rocks known as the Deccan Traps . The rocks are spread over the whole of Maharashtra and parts of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, thereby making it one of the largest volcanic provinces in the world . It consists of more than 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) of flat - lying basalt lava flows and covers an area of nearly 500,000 square kilometres (190,000 sq mi) in west - central India . Estimates of the original area covered by the lava flows are as high as 1,500,000 square kilometres (580,000 sq mi). The volume of basalt is estimated to be 511,000 cubic km . The thick dark soil (called silt) found here is suitable for cotton cultivation </P>

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