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...
Making Apple Rot
As the scab invaded Kashmir’s apple orchards, more than two-thirds of the crop is unworthy of the market. This fruit could easily be diverted...
Growing Money
Nursery business has become a major source of livelihood in several Kulgam villages, reports Samreena Nazir
On a frozen morning of February, Mir Yawar, 21,...
Veg Wonders
Urbanization forced city vegetable growers look for cheap land and labour in the periphery. Bugam in Budgam had both. But as outsiders started reaping...
No Cherry Blossom
With part of the apple already lost, it is now cherry and strawberry paying the pandemic costs. The two most delicate fruits with lowest...
Unsustainable Affair
In five years, the J&K government spent Rs 1204 Crore to acquire land for various infrastructure projects. But is this process sustainable for a...
Long Live The Apple Cart
After years of crying hoarse over Kashmir’s failure on post-harvest front, the private sector has finally chipped in to alter the way we sold...
Advancing Apples
The Mughal route town of Shopian is a booming economic centre. Producer of the best apples from the region, its business got impetus after...
A lease of life
An integrated cold chain storage facility inaugurated last week has taken Kashmir’s cumulative CAS capacity to 13800-mts with the avowed objective of giving a...
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...
Bitter Harvest
The political turmoil of the past eighteen months has hit Kashmir’s apple industry hard. The entry of the NAFED and the import of duty-free...
Mission Saffron
Dwindling yield has pushed Pampore’s saffron growers to a new low and sections within the government wish they start producing corms that are required...
APPLE TOWN’S CRISIS
Kashmir’s biggest fruit Mandi in Sopore where traders from across the Indian subcontinent converge to purchase apples produced in orchards of north Kashmir is...
The New Volunteers
Watching the farmers facing a crisis in paddy harvesting, groups of well educated youth started helping them volunatrilty and the trend has the potential...
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...