Rice Thresher
A young boy who grew up in the lush green paddy fields understood the enormous costs in sustaining agriculture. Finally, he devised a mechanical...
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...
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...
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...
Eating away imports
Despite institutions meant to improve agricultural production, the state imports almost half of the rice requirement. Hamidullah Dar reports.
The inability of the government to...
Pests, Ports And Apple
Protests by traders suggesting the Iranian apple imports should be banned to protect the domestic produce may not be a good idea to help...
Walnut Falls
Farmers, businessmen and politicians exhibit no difference when they start counting the foreign exchange earnings, almost stagnant for the last few years. Muhammad Younis...
“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...
High Density Culture
Apple apart, Kashmir has created a demonstration orchard in Srinagar outskirts where some of the best high-density fruits are grown, reports Masood Hussain
“If we see...
The Saffron Race
With massive import dependence for the world’s most expensive spice, Saffron, the government and several fortune hunters are literally in a race to cultivate...
An Upsetting Applecart
Kashmir’s fruit basket is losing weight and many other factors are sending fruit growers into the red. A Kashmir Life report.
For decades, apple has...
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...
Warming Up To Wool
J&K sells 70 per cent of its wool in raw form for lack of processing units. Consultants engaged by the government suggested market intervention,...
A Crisis, An Opportunity
Losses to Kashmir apple orchards can be assessed properly only after the government’s final survey is over. Amid mass mourning over the recent calamity,...
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....
