Almond farmers in Kashmir face challenges of shrinking farmland, declining production, and lack of infrastructure, ...

India Kashmir Apple Economy In this Sunday, Oct. 6, 2019 photo, Kashmiri farmer Rayees Ahmad shows a pile of rotten apples inside his orchard in Wuyan, south of Srinagar Indian controlled Kashmir.

Apple growers in Kashmir Valley face surge in fungal diseases threatening apple crop, impacting production and livelihoods.

By all accounts, Kashmir had a bumper apple crop this year. It should have meant a windfall for apple farmers and traders after several rocky years. The Covid-19 restrictions of the last two years ...

In Indian-administered Kashmir, low rainfall and rising temperatures are putting people's livelihoods at risk.

This is Shopian, Kashmir's“apple bowl,” where 80% of families survive on orchards. But a merciless hailstorm ripped through villages like Keller, Trenz, and Pahnoo, striking at the worst ...

In Kashmir, apple growers plant cherry, apricot and plum trees in their orchards - for variety as well as supplemental income in-between apple harvests.

SHOPIAN, India - Kashmir’s apple orchards, backbone of the economy and livelihood for nearly half the people living there, are deserted with fruit rotting on the trees at a time when they should ...

Kashmir is India’s largest apple grower fetching revenue over ₹ 8,000 to 10,000 crore to the UT and contributing around 8 to 10% of its gross domestic product.

The trees, many of which are 40-50 years old, would fetch on average 2.5 lakh apple boxes annually, they said. The villagers are angry and not ready to relent.