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Srinagar: Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s famed saffron sector is once again staring at a severe crisis, with growers warning that this year\u2019s output has plunged by nearly 90 percent.<\/p>\nSrinagar: Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s famed saffron sector is once again staring at a severe crisis, with growers warning that this year\u2019s output has plunged by nearly 90 percent.<\/p>\n
According to Kashmir Media Service, farmers in Pampore \u2014 known as the \u201cSaffron Bowl of Kashmir\u201d \u2014 say that production this season is barely 10\u201315 percent of normal levels, pushing thousands of families into economic distress.<\/p>\n
Growers expressed concern that if corrective measures are not taken immediately, the crop, which has defined Kashmir\u2019s identity for centuries may vanish.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis year the corms haven\u2019t sprouted properly at all,\u201d said Abdul Majeed Wani, President of the Saffron Growers Association, occupied Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cProduction is hardly 15 percent. It isn\u2019t even half of last year\u2019s crop, which itself was only about 30 percent of the normal harvest. Every year it is decreasing, and the government doesn\u2019t seem serious about safeguarding this sector.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wani said the main problem lies in repeated long dry spells, lack of effective irrigation, and the poor quality of corms available in recent years.<\/p>\n
The farmers demanded immediate provision of irrigation facilities, regular monitoring of saffron fields, stopping illegal sales, and availability of quality quorum for planting fresh seedlings.<\/p>\n
A group of distressed farmers from Pampore said, “The revival of saffron is not just about saving the crop, it is about saving a tradition, a culture and an identity and if urgent and effective measures are not taken, there will be no saffron left in Pampore by 2030.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Srinagar: Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s famed saffron sector is once again staring at a severe crisis, with growers warning that this year\u2019s output has plunged by nearly 90 percent. According to Kashmir Media Service, farmers in Pampore \u2014 known as the \u201cSaffron Bowl of Kashmir\u201d \u2014 say that production this season is barely …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":187042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indian-occupied-jammu-and-kashmir"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-02-170934.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187040"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187046,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187040\/revisions\/187046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}