Dry Spell Hits Hard: Kashmir’s Agriculture Suffers from Lack of Rain

Dry Spell Hits Hard: Kashmir's Agriculture Suffers from Lack of Rain

‘Thirsty lands, struggling Farmers’: Kashmir suffers from severe rain deficit The months’ long dry spell in Kashmir has left farmers struggling as the lack of rainfall continues to affect crops, from fruit to vegetables, experts and farmers said Monday. Even as the dry spell was broken by the snowfall in upper reaches and light rain in plains, the experts opined that there was a desperate need for major spells of rainfall as trees are craving for moisture and soil is thirsty. The scarcity of water has not only affected the sowing…

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