Kashmir is witnessing increasingly hot weather at this time of the spring season, bringing cheers to floriculturists who expect an early bloom at the Tulip Garden in Srinagar. The day temperatures in Kashmir are hovering around 25ºC, some 9-10 degrees above normal, for the past at least three days. The rise in temperature is considered good for the early blooming of flowers meant for ornamentation and tourism, but bad for horticulture as it impacts the quality of fruits owing to fluctuating temperatures, experts say. The heat factor, meanwhile, has prompted…
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