It is aptly named "The Garden of Baluchistan," for considerably more than two-thirds of its area are under cultivation.

Water at Mastung is never-failing, and the pretty town, nestling in a valley of vineyards and fruit-gardens, fig and olive trees, reminded one more of some secluded town in the Pyrenees or south of France than a Baluch settlement.

The soil hereabouts is light and sandy and particularly favourable to the cultivation of grapes, of which there are no less than five kinds.

Apricots, peaches, plums, and pomegranates are also grown, and supply the markets of Quetta and Kelat.

Madder and tobacco are also exported in large quantities from Mastung, which possesses a neatly built and busy bazaar.
The plain of Dasht-bi-Dowlat, or "The Unpropitious Plain," lies between Mastung and Quetta.