Shopian: A day after laying cordon around several Shopian villages, government forces on Tuesday carried out cordon and search operation (CASO) in two more villages in the south Kashmir district. However, both the military operations were called off with no trace of militants found in either of the villages. Locals from Pahnoo village said that […]
Shopian: Government forces on Monday carried out multiple cordon and search operations in south Kashmir’s Shopian. The villages where search operations were carried out include Turkwangam, Daramdora, Hanjipora and Dachno villages of the district. Dachoo is a remote village in Hirpora forests. According to police sources, cordon and search operations were carried out by a […]
Shopian: The government’s claims of having stopped the sale of spurious fungicides and pesticides in Kashmir sound like a pack of lies as every second day brings reports, from different parts of the valley, of damage caused to fruit orchards due to these spurious or substandard products. Recently, photographs of damaged leaves in a big […]
Shopian: In a region already struggling for want of proper healthcare facilities, reports that the high-flow oxygen plant will be shifted from district hospital Shopian to somewhere else have led to outrage among the general public in this mountainous district. The authorities remain tight-lipped on the matter while rumours spread that the oxygen plant is […]
Shopian: The J&K Government this year has made special arrangements for transport subsidy to ferry Kashmiri cherry to different parts of India. The arrangements include 25 percent subsidy to farmers who opt for air traffic and refrigerator trucks to send their cherry to other parts of India. Director Horticulture, Kashmir, Ajaz Ahmad Bhat told Kashmir […]
SHOPIAN: More than three decades on, the primary health centre (PHC) at Imam Sahib Tehsil headquarters in Shopian district continues to languish in a rundown rented building while the new building sanctioned for it is yet to be constructed. This is despite the government’s decision to build a ‘new type primary health centre’ (NTPHC) here. […]
Shopian: After procuring Kashmiri apple, the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd (NAFED) this year is going to buy Kashmiri cherry, directly from growers, the very first time it is doing so. Officials from NAFED informed Kashmir Reader that the agency is going to procure the Kashmiri cherry for the first time now […]
Shopian: An unidentified militant has been killed and at least seven civilians injured by pellets in an ongoing military operation at Ganowpora Arshi village, some three kilometers from district headquarters Shopian. Searches are being carried out by a joint team of government forces to trace the militants in an orchard area of the village. Police […]
Shopian: After the stge of fruit set, many orchardists spray pesticides while keeping spray guns at high speed without using foggy guns, and they also spray some chemicals which are not advised at the stage as they cause russetting in the fruit, particularly apple and pear, thus making the fruit B-grade which fetches low rates […]
Shopian: When the horticulture industry was facing a major challenge in terms of unseasonal rains which not only washed away the sprayed fungicides but also resulted in outbreak of many diseases in fruits, particularly in apple, a young man from Srinagar has almost ended the woes of fruit growers here. Faizan Arif, a 20-year-old college […]