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Yarkhun Valley (appellation) treats the Yarkhun valley in Upper Chitral as a cannabis appellation of the Chitral growing area, in the Hindu Kush growing region: its geography, climate, administration and people, the colonial record of the valley, and the seed collections named for it. Chitral as a whole is treated at Chitral.
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- Geography and people. Allan's Encyclopaedia Iranica entry (1991) treats Chitral as a whole and names the Yarkhun for its glacier, irrigation, Ismaili Wakhi villages and yaks. The 1928 Military Report and Gazetteer on Chitral was read from a scanned text with OCR errors; only passages that read clearly are used, and its colonial military purpose frames everything it says. Sabbah and colleagues (2024) and Noor Ul Amin (2024) describe Broghil and the Baroghil valley at the head of the Yarkhun.
- Administration. The 2018 notification of Upper Chitral District is known from a Chitral Today report of the same day; the notification itself was not read.
- Cannabis. Allan's statement on hashish concerns Chitral generally and does not say where it was made. The seed company's listings are used only for what they say about their own seed: its source, purpose and harvest.
What the sources do not cover
- No source read describes cannabis growing in the Yarkhun valley itself, its fields, villages or season, apart from the seed company's listings. Ethnobotanical surveys of the Mulkhow and Lotkuh valleys record the plant elsewhere in Chitral.
- Census figures for Mastuj Tehsil and the valley's villages, and the valley's length, were not found in a source that could be read.
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The Yarkhun Valley is an appellation of the Chitral growing area, in the Hindu Kush growing region. Its border is unchanged: the Yarkhun catchment above Mastuj. Erwin Grötzbach (Encyclopaedia Iranica, 2003) names the Yarkhun valley among those that mark the eastern edge of the Hindu Kush.