Farmer Hamid Mir has started picking apples from his orchards that stretch across 0.5ha in Kunzer, some 31km from Kashmir's capital Srinagar. But he is still unsure about where he will sell the harvest.
"Usually by August, September, buyers from Mumbai or Delhi or Punjab state would have come to my house, and we would have fixed rates and started sending the apples by trucks. But this year, because the phones were not working, I couldn't do anything."Enjoy unlimited access to ST's best work Subscribe Now
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