Natural Resources and Economies of East Asia

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Central Asia's economic activity is centered on irrigated agriculture in the south and on heavy and light industry and mining in Kazakhstan. Under Soviet rule the area supplied most of the U. S. S. R.'s cotton and was a major supplier of coal and other minerals for industrial use.