Athar Parvaiz
Athar Parvaiz is a Srinagar-based journalist.
May 6, 2019
Merino sheep breeding helps maintaining a healthy stock and boosts wool and meat production (Photo by Athar Parvaiz)
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Sheepherders conserve quality Kashmir Merino stock

Good management practices have helped sheep farmers to ensure a quality lineage of Kashmir Merino, a hybrid of the government’s crossbreeding program. It has boosted local production of wool and meat

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February 4, 2019
Apple growers suffering financial losses due to untimely snowfall in 2018, had suffered damages during the 2014 flooding as well (Photo by Athar Parvaiz)
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Heavy snow hurts Kashmir’s apple farmers

Extreme weather events such as untimely snowfall and heavy floods have harmed the apple crop in Kashmir; one way to reduce losses is to properly implement a crop insurance scheme

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October 19, 2018
A young Kashmiri farmer working in his field (Photo by Athar Parvaiz)
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Next-gen Kashmir farmers turn to water wisdom

A new generation of Kashmiri farmers are adapting to extreme weather events such as more frequent droughts by creating water harvesting infrastructure to irrigate their land

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September 3, 2018
Tsering Chondol (right), President of Women’s Alliance of Ladakh, with three other members outside their office in Leh (Photo by Athar Parvaiz)
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Women show the way in waterless Ladakh

As snowfall reduces and glaciers retreat in Ladakh due to climate change, a group of women is promoting traditional ways of farming that are best suited to the cold desert

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