After facing one of its worst harvests on record, the Kashmir Valley’s farmers worry about the future of their prized saffron ...

SRINAGAR, IndiaSRINAGAR, India — Cradled by low mountains and spread across a vast expanse of small, fertile fields, a sea of purple flowers opens in Himalayan Kashmir to produce one of the world’s ...

As the Himalayan region struggles with unemployment and the loss of large swathes of its agricultural land to construction, local farmers are being won over to floriculture SRINAGAR, India, June 1 ...

SRINAGAR, India, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Officials in Indian Kashmir have a new idea they hope will breathe life into a region drained by nearly three decades of fighting -- flower power. The world's ...

Every season brings its own colours in the valley. When spring tulips fade, winter chrysanthemums arrive, spreading bright shades of yellow, red, and white across gardens and markets. These flowers ...

In Kashmir’s saffron fields, flowers bloom but yields fall According to official data, the area under saffron cultivation has shrunk from about 5,700 hectares in the late 1990s to just 3,665 hectares ...

SRINAGAR, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As soon as his son graduated from college, Ghulam Mohi-u-Din Dar asked him to take care of the family flower business in Kral Sangri, near Srinagar, the ...

A Kashmiri shopkeeper Shabeeh Farooq displays saffron boxes inside his showroom in Lethpora, south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020. Across the world, saffron is used in ...