An Exceptional Trader
Abdul Hameed Wani, who owns and runs Kashmir’s only private apple mandi deep in south Kashmir is a self-made businessman, whose trade is dictated...
Apple In Cold Chain
Kashmir’s cold chain sector is gradually emerging as an impressive growth story. With Rs 2500 crore investment already in the sector and another Rs...
Bilquis In Business
Her father gifted her a piece of orchard on the roadside and sought a promise that she would utilize it for a sustainable activity....
The Apple Crush
Kashmir is India’s main apple cart but it is yet to adopt the best market practices that are in vogue in neighbouring Himachal Pradesh. Masood...
Kashmir’s Apple Girana Market
As politics played a spoilsport in the market intervention scheme (MIS) aimed at managing the C-class apple locally, the market has located and seized...
High Density, High Hopes
For the first time in many years, Kashmir is expected to consume a record number of high-density plants this fall. The driving force is...
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...
