Waiting For A Bloom!
With both production and prices falling drastically since last one decade saffron is turning out to be a costly affair for growers. Shams Irfan...
Apple Woes
Despite increase in production apple growers in south Kashmir are finding it hard to carry on the occupation as quality of the produce has...
Getting Back into Seinweir
Decades after late Bakhshi Ghulam Mohammad converted low-lying garden Seinwari into Sonawari for habitation, an overflowing Jhelum found its way in. It took villagers 25...
Obnoxious Sprays
With produce worth Rs 300 crore lost last season Kashmir’s horticulture sector is no longer a safe investment. Saima Bhat reports how spurious fish...
RAILWAY MILLIONAIRES
As Railways ventured into Kashmir Valley, it paid 600 crore as compensation for land to people. But as the train chugs, the traces of...
The Money Plants
At the peak of militancy, Zakir Hussain Qadri would sell home appliances door to door in Punjab. As things improved, he returned and struggled...
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...
A Game Changer
As India and Pakistan were fighting over Kargil heights, a south Kashmir boy takes off for US to study. Nine years later, Khuram Mir...
Saffron Harvest: A Photo Feature
During late autumn, people from Saffron town, Pampore, in South Kashmir start picking saffron flowers and heaping them into wicker baskets. Their chatter and...
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...
Apple Woes
Kashmiri apple constitute 77 percent of total apple produce in India, there by contributing considerably to the state’s economy. As the major apple produce...
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...
Smells Good
Three men saved Kashmir’s lone drugs research laboratory from becoming history. Recently vacated by CRPF after 25 years the centre is set to revolutionize...
A Renewed Interest
The negative connotations associated with sheep farming as the calling of backward class of society is fast changing as highly qualified youth see it...
Strawberry Economy
A quiet village on the outskirts of Srinagar is at the forefront of a change in Kashmir’s fruit market in the last decade. With...
