Kashmir Apple Trees

Thousands of farmers in the Kashmir Valley are facing a new and unusual enemy to their livelihood - porcupines - large, thorny rodents that are attacking almond and apple trees.

The vast patches of land at Kani Dajan village are dotted with chopped apple trees. Even sapling have not been spared. A Jammu and Kashmir forest department drive to retrieve forest land from alleged encroachers is not only dispossessing villagers from land they have been farming for generations, thousands of apple trees, too, have been mowed down ...

It was mid-autumn and apple growers were busy harvesting their produce in Kashmir when winter suddenly announced its arrival with an unusually early bout of snowfall on Saturday. A video of a young farmer weeping over his devastated orchard the following day has gone viral. In it, the man is seen desperately trying to salvage apples buried under th...

Heavy unexpected snowfall has thrown life out of gear in Jammu and Kashmir. Key road links are blocked and there is complete breakdown of electricity supply in the Valley. Apple growers have been badly hit and thousands of apple trees have been covered with thick snow.

Thousands of farmers in the Kashmir Valley are facing a new and unusual enemy to their livelihood - porcupines - large, thorny rodents that are attacking almond and apple trees.

The vast patches of land at Kani Dajan village are dotted with chopped apple trees. Even sapling have not been spared. A Jammu and Kashmir forest department drive to retrieve forest land from alleged encroachers is not only dispossessing villagers from land they have been farming for generations, thousands of apple trees, too, have been mowed down ...

It was mid-autumn and apple growers were busy harvesting their produce in Kashmir when winter suddenly announced its arrival with an unusually early bout of snowfall on Saturday. A video of a young farmer weeping over his devastated orchard the following day has gone viral. In it, the man is seen desperately trying to salvage apples buried under th...

Heavy unexpected snowfall has thrown life out of gear in Jammu and Kashmir. Key road links are blocked and there is complete breakdown of electricity supply in the Valley. Apple growers have been badly hit and thousands of apple trees have been covered with thick snow.