Weddings Postponed, Lives Paused: Climate Change Leaves Kashmir’s Apple Farmers and Millions Nationwide in Debt and Despair
Over the last 10 years, farmers have struggled with warming winters, erratic snowfall, spring frosts, pest attacks and now extreme summer hailstorms. As climate change leaves Kashmir apple farmers in debt and pushes millions of crisis-ridden farmers nationwide further into despair, government relief is minimal, and crop insurance unaffordable.