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How Kashmir's warming winters are driving a new agricultural crisis

India, July 10 -- Wild boars, once thought to have vanished from Kashmir, are returning to farms, orchards and towns as winters grow milder. Farmers across the Valley report damage to paddy nurseries... Read More


How a British import turned Kashmir into India's trout capital

New Delhi, June 28 -- On a cold, June morning at the Kokernag trout farm in south Kashmir's Anantnag district, about 90 km from Srinagar, Fayaz Ahmad Mir hauls a net through a concrete raceway (an art... Read More


Why Kashmir's new rail link matters to the economy behind 95% of India's cherries

Srinagar, May 23 -- Abdul Rehman Dar walks through his cherry orchard in central Kashmir's Ganderbal district, stopping every few steps to press a cluster of ripening fruit between his fingers. In a f... Read More


From treaty to terrain: why Indus waters haven't fixed irrigation stress in J&K

New Delhi, May 9 -- Rishu Goswami farms six acres of land in Bilawar, a village in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir. Agriculture is his only income. For years, he has watched it rain at the wrong ... Read More


From treaty to terrain: why Indus waters haven't fixed irrigation stress in J&K

Jammu, May 9 -- Rishu Goswami farms six acres of land in Bilawar, a village in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir. Agriculture is his only income. For years, he has watched it rain at the wrong time... Read More


From forest to lab: Kashmir's prized Gucchi mushroom gets a cultivation fix

Srinagar, April 18 -- A prized forest delicacy among the world's most expensive mushrooms is collapsing in the wild even as scientists in Kashmir say they may have found a way to cultivate it. Gucchi... Read More