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The Entanglement of Nature and Market: An Anthropological Analysis of Environmental Hazard and Economic Precarity in Kashmir’s Horticultural Economy
double disaster, drought, farmer distress, frost, hailstorm, Kashmir apples, market failure, natural disasters, no rates outside, snowfallBy: RASHID AHMAD RATHER – Kashmir is renowned for its apples, a crop that sustains thousands of families whose livelihoods, marriages, education, and daily needs depend on orchard income. Today, however, apple growers face a severe crisis caused by two interconnected forces. The first is environmental disruption: hailstorms that destroy blossoms, untimely snowfall that buries…