Centre’s ambitious renewal mission, fails to click due to actions of land and soil excavation mafia. Despite the setting chill, south Kashmir’s Pampore fields, situated on rare soil dunes, wear a festive look these days with young and old, irrespective of their professions and gender, singing and plucking the famed and prized saffron crop from a carpet of purple flowers. However, the disappointment on farmers’ faces is visible as the Centre’s Rs. 413-crore Prime Minister’s National Saffron Renewal Mission has failed in its objective. Besides, the politician-backed land and soil…
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