Narrator: Once the crop starts flowering, harvesters have to work fast to make sure they can pick it all in time. Almost all of the saffron planted can flower within one week of the year.

Worth more than gold, most of the saffron you consume can trace its origins to Kashmir’s scenic city of Pampore, Destinations ...

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Kashmir’s saffron farming has come under threat from global warming. Declining yields have resulted in production dropping to 15 tons annually. Erratic weather patterns, unseasonable warmth, and ...

Around 110 kg of saffron tubers is being cultivated this year and the crop will be ready for harvest by October. “The crop is growing well, despite cultivation without soil. I have grown it this ...

On sweeping fields once blanketed in lush purple, a thin and bedraggled crop of flowers was all farmers in Indian-administered Kashmir’s saffron-growing region Pampore had to show for this year ...

In a modest 400-square-foot room in their Nagpur flat, Akshay Holey and his wife, Divya Lohakare Holey, are defying conventional farming by growing saffron—one of the world’s most expensive ...