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Agriculture

Though stagnant, the agriculture is the mainstay of Jammu and Kashmir economy. This section offers detailed narratives of the crops, the practices in the sector, the policy interventions and its importance for a vast population living in semi-urban and rural belts of the state.

Getting Back into Seinweir

Decades after late Bakhshi Ghulam Mohammad converted low-lying garden Seinwari into Sonawari for habitation, an overflowing Jhelum found its way in. It took villagers 25...

Obnoxious Sprays

With produce worth Rs 300 crore lost last season Kashmir’s horticulture sector is no longer a safe investment. Saima Bhat reports how spurious fish...

RAILWAY MILLIONAIRES

  As Railways ventured into Kashmir Valley, it paid 600 crore as compensation for land to people. But as the train chugs, the traces of...

The Money Plants

At the peak of militancy, Zakir Hussain Qadri would sell home appliances door to door in Punjab.  As things improved, he returned and struggled...

Mission Impossible

The multi-crore NSM scheme was launched to revive the dwindling saffron production in Kashmir. But since its launch the ambitious scheme is in news...

A Game Changer

 As India and Pakistan were fighting over Kargil heights, a south Kashmir boy takes off for US to study. Nine years later, Khuram Mir...

Saffron Harvest: A Photo Feature

During late autumn, people from Saffron town, Pampore, in South Kashmir start picking saffron flowers and heaping them into wicker baskets. Their chatter and...

Vanishing Saffron Fields

Kashmiris once famed saffron fields are fast vanishing under the layers of concrete and mortar. With ill conceived policies to stop conversion of saffron...

Apple Woes

Kashmiri apple constitute 77 percent of total apple produce in India, there by contributing considerably to the state’s economy. As the major apple produce...

Producing, But Not Selling

While Kashmiri almond growers fail to market their produce for want of knowledge and government support, Jammu despite not producing even a single almond...

Smells Good

Three men saved Kashmir’s lone drugs research laboratory from becoming history. Recently vacated by CRPF after 25 years the centre is set to revolutionize...

A Renewed Interest

The negative connotations associated with sheep farming as the calling of backward class of society is fast changing as highly qualified youth see it...

Strawberry Economy

A quiet village on the outskirts of Srinagar is at the forefront of a change in Kashmir’s fruit market in the last decade. With...

Reaping The Harvest

Cannabis cultivation was a parallel economy in pockets of south Kashmir that sustained many livelihoods. As the police successfully cracked down on the cultivators...
Messy Millions Cover Story

Messy Millions

As crores of rupees flow into the sleepy Letpora hamlet, a dangerous consumerism has set in among the villagers, replacing simplicity and appetite for...