Food Security
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3.6KKashmir’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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Locusts 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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The 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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One 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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‘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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‘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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Time 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...
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Sheikhpora’s broke winnow-makers are now falling prey to a ‘mystery blindness’
In the recent past, people from Sheikhpora travelled across Kashmir with their handmade winnows. They were much-sought after artisans around. But now, they...
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Altaf Bukhari directs release of 50% budget for procurement of ration
Srinagar: Minister for Finance, Labour and Employment Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari on Tuesday directed to release 50 percent budget to the department...
