38-Year-Old Collapses While Playing Volleyball, Dies Of Cardiac Arrest
SRINAGAR: A 38-year-old man died of a cardiac arrest while playing a volleyball match at Naidkhai village of Sonawari in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district...
The Kashmir Morels
Like carpets that Kashmir weaves but ill-affords for itself, the valley produces more than 25 tons of costly morels that sell at a cost...
A Potato Culture
Working in SKUAST-K’s potato laboratory, a scholar was desperate for the MS media, a key ingredient for tissue culture but the lab lacked funds....
“We Created A Rice Variety Having Three Times More Yield”
Hinging hopes and envisioning, New Agricultural and Educational Policy to revolutionize the agricultural output and agro-education in Jammu and Kashmir, Prof Nazir A Ganai, Vice...
‘Saffron Is Anti-carcinogenic; Can Delay Alzheimer’s and is Used in Treating Depression’
A leading plant scientist, Dr Nasheman Ashraf, currently Principal Scientist at CSIR-IIM, was the first to create a data bank of 64000 Saffron genes...
The Apple Chip
Flying around to explore the possibility of setting up a business in the third world, an American agriculture graduate landed in Kashmir, a place...
Mushrooming A Culture
A mechanical engineer has started implementing an ambitious plan to address Kashmir's pre-harvest and post-harvest concerns so that mushroom cultivation takes off as a...
New Agriculture Policy
With the primary sector shrinking in size and space, encouraging migrations at the grassroots level, the Jammu and Kashmir administration has come up with...
A Dairy Deficit
The Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD) has wreaked havoc on families who adore and depend on cattle for economic well-being. The epidemic is emerging as...
Selfless Grower
Right now when apple is facing crippling market adversity, the desperate grower is making every effort to keep the wheel of the Kashmir economy...
Driving Nuts
Water chestnuts harvested from Wullar lake have helped Kashmir survive the worst days in the last 250 years. Considered the best food for diabetics,...
Royal Nuts
For five weeks every fall, Sweet Chestnuts sell roasted on the Srinagar city streets at a cost not matched by any other fruit. Humaira...
Road Disruptions
For two days, Kashmir was restive over the inordinate delay in the passage of apple-laden truck convoys on the ailing old highway. While the...
Kashmir’s Milk Belt
Abundant with nutrient-rich fodder and not far away from Srinagar, the major Kashmir market, a cluster of villages in Pulwama have emerged as key...
Android Orchards
With a lot of machines already involved in the apple growing in pre-harvest and post-harvest, it is the turn of taking information technology to...
