nestled deep in south Kashmir’s Shopian district, the apple town of Kashmir. What aggravates Bhat’s predicament is that he is suffering from night blindness and his only son, who could have ...

Kashmir’s flourishing apple farms, major contributors to the local economy, face a threat from a proposed rail project possibly affecting their soil fertility and stability.

In 2020, a scab epidemic devastated apple orchards in Kashmir due to prevalence of fake pesticides. The COVID-19 induced lockdown enabled the fraudsters to sell the fake pesticides to the apple ...