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I&FC has no drought pumps to mitigate crisis Suhail Bhat SRINAGAR, June 13: Farmers across Kashmir are confronting a scarcity of irrigation water in their fields as the Jhelum and its tributaries, water level have dropped to a 65-year low, rendering the majority of lift irrigation schemes inoperable. According to official estimates, the Sangam gauge reading has reached 0.74 feet, which is lower than the lowest ever measurement of 0.75 feet, which was recorded in November of 2017. According to […]
"Agar sarkar nahi, toh khud sahi," (If the government doesnt, well do it), say Faizan, Sahil, Danish and Zahid, a group of cricket-loving teenagers in Heff, a populous and restive village in Jammu and Kashmir s Shopian district. They, .
Incriminating materials, arms and ammunition including one Chinese pistol, one pistol magazine, two Chinese hand grenades, eight pistol rounds were recovered from the possession of the LeT terrorists.
Shopian, Indian-administered Kashmir – Ghulam Mohammad Mir, 62, looks grudgingly at the canal that usually brings water year-round to his and many other fruit orchards in Indian-administered Kashmir’s Shopian district, home to some of the finest apples grown in the lap of the Himalayas.
Mir’s anger has a reason. The canal is dry these days, hampering the start of the apple season when farmers prepare the trees with minerals and fertilisers.
“It is time to give trees their first shower (of minerals and pesticides) but there’s no water,” laments Mir, pointing to the parched canal. “It will prove costly, because missing even one spray (out of approximately a dozen recommended) can ruin the whole crop.”