Snowed under
Unseasonal heavy snow and the lockdown in the Valley have crippled farmers
by Moazum Mohammad
Nov 29, 2019
2 minutes
Muneer Hussain is a desperate man today. The 42-year-old Shopian apple farmer has hundred-odd trees in his small orchard and, in a normal year, harvests about 1,500 boxes of apples. This season, though, the snow has fallen ahead of schedule and has ruined everything. Only 15 trees are safe, the rest have suffered irreparable damage, says a
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