Shopian, May 29: Bashir Ahmad, an apple farmer, stood holding damaged apples knocked off trees by an intense hailstorm in Pehlipora village of south Kashmir’s Shopian district. “All my hard work was ruined in a jiffy,” Ahmad said as he collected fallen apples in his pheran. For Ahmad, who belongs to the marginalised Gujjar community, and many other farmers in the village, the apple crop had appeared promising until Saturday afternoon, when a sud…
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