Shedding spice: Kashmir’s prized saffron crops hit by dry spells
It’s with pensive eyes that 60-year-old Ali Mohamed Reshi gazes over his saffron farm in Pulwama’s Lethpora space, some 22 km south of Srinagar. The protracted dry spell and local weather change spells doom for his crop of saffron, the world’s most coveted spice. Because the starting of June, the Valley has been reeling underneath a … Read more