Jammu, Sept. 5 -- Share Tweet Share Anuj Kumar Verma Jammu, Sep 05 (KNS) : Farmers and beekeepers across the Kashmir Valley, Ramban, Udhampur, and Kishtwar are reporting a sharp decline in honeybee populations, a trend they link to the heavy and often indiscriminate use of chemical pesticides, fertilizers, and herbicides in orchards and fields. At the same time, erratic weather-excessive rain, hailstorms, unseasonal cold, and rising temperatures-is disrupting flowering and nectar flow, adding stress to already weakened colonies. High mortality of eggs and adult bees due to small hive beetle (SHB) infestation (Aethina tumida) is compounding the crisis; scientists have yet to find a fully trustworthy treatment to combat this destructive par...