| 1 | So the valleys that cut through the mountains are extremely fertile. | |
| 2 | About 15 years ago, I spent a summer in France's Loire Valley. | |
| 3 | "This valley is not big enough to have genetically engineered crops and normal crops growing together without cross contamination happening, " he says. | |
| 4 | Wide, flat valleys provide more wheat than rice in this part of Yunnan province. | |
| 5 | But those words were not heeded in Kashmir valley, where streets were deserted as separatist groups called for a boycott of Independence Day celebrations. |