Farmers dwelling alongside the almost 200-km-long Worldwide Border in Jammu and Kashmir are racing towards time to finish the harvest course of amid heightened rigidity following the Pahalgam terror assault.
Within the three districts of Jammu, Samba, and Kathua, about 1.25 lakh hectares of agricultural land falls throughout the shelling vary of Pakistan. Households are working day and night time to complete harvesting, dry the grain, and pack it for supply to mills.
“We reside in a hazard zone. Each time shelling begins, we face demise and destruction,” a farmer from Treva, Rakesh Kumar, mentioned.
Radhika Devi, who belongs to a farmers’ household of village Suchetgarh, mentioned her household had packed over 300 luggage of wheat in just some days. “It’s an emergency. Mill house owners are paying properly and are shortly ferrying the baggage to safer areas,” she mentioned.
