Food Security
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2.5KIn photos: Floods, highway closure hit apple growers with estimated ₹700 crore loss
Srinagar: Apple growers in south Kashmir are staring at huge losses this season after floods and highway closures hit the harvest. Large...
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7.4KFarm fortitude of Kashmir’s women food growers
What sets these women apart is their all-weather resilience to be food producers amid the growing consumerism in Kashmir. Under the searing...
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5.7KKashmir’s ‘first fruit’ grows rich in pandemic
As a first-comer among the locally grown fruits, Kashmiri strawberry’s bumper crop is spreading smiles despite mobility and market blues. Sexagenarian orchardist...
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1.8KLocusts wreak havoc in Pakistan, cotton and vegetable crop hit as invasion covers more than country’s total-crop-area
Swarms of locusts spreading across Pakistan are emerging as a bigger threat to the country’s economy than the coronavirus pandemic, with the...
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3.4KThe organic vegetable gardens of Dal Lake, Kashmir
The Kashmir region depends on neighbouring areas for its vegetable supply. Srinagar city, which earlier was self sufficient, now imports vegetables from...
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2.0KOne civilian being killed every three hours in Yemen, more dying due to disease, hunger, says Oxfam report
Yemen war since the beginning of August has culminated into a civilian being killed every three hours and with many more people...
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2.2K‘Yemen on the brink of widespread famine, 50 percent surviving on humanitarian aid alone’
The UN Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Mark Lowcock Tuesday warned that Yemen is on the brink of widespread famine, with almost fifty percent...
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2.6K‘2000 canals of land being grabbed in Hazratbal, officials hand in glove with encroachers’
Hazratbal residents accuse DC Ganderbal of not taking action, allowing encroachers to build on government land Srinagar: The residents of Chatarhama Hazratbal, Srinagar...
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7.2KTime to pick the fleshy fruit from Kashmir’s largest plum producing belt
Notwithstanding disquieting weather forecasts, plum orchardists of Budgam’s B.K. Pora are currently reaping a bumper cash crop. Increased production coupled with domestic...
