The Dhaka Times Desk Just seeing it makes my mind go crazy. There is a blue glow around. A strange beauty has become what can be called heaven. Today there is a story of the world's most expensive crop!
This beauty of the valley makes you forget all the problems of the country. Even in this climate of Corona, the farmers of Kashmir can see some light of hope.
Farmers have started picking saffron flowers from thousands of acres of land in Kashmir. The scene is from October. The reason is that in the month of October vast areas of Kashmir turn blue with the glow of saffron flowers.
This saffron is sold at 3 lakh rupees per kg from 1 lakh 60 thousand! So this crop is called the most expensive crop in the world. In India, saffron is cultivated only in Kashmir.
Pampore town in South Kashmir's Pulwama district is famous as Kesar town. This city is located on the Jammu-Kashmir highway, 20 km from Srinagar.
Planting of saffron tubers starts from September. By October it flowers again. Those flowers are purple in color. from which the stigma is extracted. Apart from Pampore, saffron is also cultivated in Kistbar district. This year saffron has been cultivated in 3 thousand 715 hectares of land, according to a news report of Genius.
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