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...
Driving Nuts
Water chestnuts harvested from Wullar lake have helped Kashmir survive the worst days in the last 250 years. Considered the best food for diabetics,...
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...
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...
Kashmir’s Milk Belt
Abundant with nutrient-rich fodder and not far away from Srinagar, the major Kashmir market, a cluster of villages in Pulwama have emerged as key...
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...
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...
Selling Apple
In order to get the best from its apple cart, Jammu and Kashmir invested massively in creating a vast infrastructure in pre and post-harvest....
Shelling The Nut
People in the private and public sectors are working overtime to discover the endless opportunities that Kashmir’s famed walnut offers. If the nut is...
Spiced Up, Finally
After investing almost Rs 450 crore in the last decade in pre and post-harvest, Kashmir’s saffron fields in Pampore are smiling over the purple...
Sapling Success
Two brothers laboured for 15 years in experimental orchards. One day, when they were sure that they will never be regularised, they decided to...
An FMD Outbreak
In the last few months, the foot and mouth disease has killed around 2000 cattle heads in Kashmir alone, Sarmad Dev reports
Foot and Mouth...
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...
Orchard Massacres
The Forest Department issued notices to all the ‘encroachers’ everywhere. But a patch on Budgam-Pulwama border was the only place across Jammu and Kashmir...
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...