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Bitter Harvest

Bitter Harvest
The political turmoil of the past eighteen months has hit Kashmir’s apple industry hard. The entry of the NAFED and the import of duty-free Iranian apples through the Afghanistan route is being seen as interventions that will upset the apple-cart further, reports
Yawar Hussain
A local worker packing apples. KL Image by Bilal Bahadur
When Jammu and Kashmir administration signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED) in January 2020, it was expected to promote the state’s horticulture produce and take it to the global market. A year later, the NAFED has done little to help the apple farmers. On the contrary, it has shaken up the already smooth and profitably functioning decades-old setup of the Rs 9000 crore worth horticulture industry. The entry of duty-free Iranian apples through the Afghanistan route has only further detracted from the profitability of the ....

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Developmental Democracy?

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J&K Government signs MoU with NAFED for High-Density Plantation of Horticulture produce
After decisively changing the political structure of Jammu and Kashmir, the union government has now shifted gears to focus on the economy. Considering that the Parliament was informed that Article 370 and Article 35A were abolished to remove the roadblocks to the economic development of Kashmir, the slew of economic policy measure announced over the last three months were expected for some time now.
There is no denying the fact that BJP is transforming the nation-state from an accommodating (read, “soft state”) to a hard state, more so vis-a-vis Kashmir. What this meant in political terms has already been seen. On the economy front, the intention seems to be to replace the “granny state which doles out goodies” by a hardnosed development state which gets a bang for every buck. No quarrels with that. ....

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