The back-to-back dry winters in Kashmir have led to a depletion of water resources, threatening the future of the region’s irrigation-dependent high-density apple orchards. The introduction of ...
SRINAGAR: In the small village of Losedanow, nestled in Kashmir’s apple town of Shopian, Sayar Ahmad Lone hoped to change his family’s fortune when he invested ₹16 lakh in European high-density apple ...
Not too long ago, villages in north Kashmir’s Pattan sub-district were surrounded by vast paddy fields. The villagers would produce enough rice—a staple diet in Kashmir—to be self-sufficient. A few ...
Rains have averted the threat to the paddy cultivations in Kashmir. Showers have ended irrigation woes in Kashmir and recharged depleting groundwater table After heavy rainfall across Kashmir and ...
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Apple growers in Kashmir face huge losses
Apple growers in Kashmir are staring at huge losses this year as floods and highway closures disrupt the peak harvest season, enmeshing growers and truckers in uncertainty, farmers and industry ...
Conversion of rice land to apple orchard as rains grow irregular is turning the region into an ever-bigger importer of rice SRINAGAR, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Food security in the ...
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