Creamy affluence
Raise in milk production has brought in prosperity for some villages in Pulwama giving their children access to education and a better life. Mir...
Fundamental Shrinkage
With inheritance and mutations reducing the landholding, Kashmir is heading towards induced joblessness in coming days, reports Masood Hussain
Policymakers limited to the civil secretariat...
A Chestnut Story
Come November and a group of villagers in Bandipora row their boats into Wular Lake to extract water chestnuts which are then supplied to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Forbidden Fruit
With orchards as deserts as Srinagar streets, Kashmir’s apple cart may upset the economy, reports Umar Mukhtar
Every morning, Ali Mohammad, an apple grower in...
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...
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...
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...
Exotic Delights
Many exotic fruits are being grown in Kashmir adding variety to Kashmir’s fruit basket. Syed Asma reports on some of the ‘new fruits which...
Not A Priority!
All banks have a basket enabling them to infuse micro credit in key sectors. But most of these schemes partnered by the governments are...
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...
