Railway expansion gives sleepless nights to Shopian’s apple farmers, An entire village relies on apple cultivation for its livelihood, with over 85 percent of the district’s population directly or indirectly reliant on the apple economy. Shopian, Mar 17: A recently macadamised road winding its way through dense apple orchards from Shopian town, some 66 km south of Srinagar, leads to Reshipora village. The small village comprising 300 households has been in deep distress since the Railway authorities started carrying out a survey in the village for laying a railway track. The…
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