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As Kashmir turns from paddy to apples, dependence on outside rice grows
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- “Twenty years ago, all this was paddy,” says Nazir Ahmad, a farmer from Qaimoh, a village in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district, pointing at the rows of apple saplings that now cover his land.
- Today, much of that landscape has changed.
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- 2026-10-13T12:45:17.000Z
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