poster regarding how they grow crop in coldest season of jammu kashmir
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The greater part of India’s cold arid area, 90% to be precise, is in the Ladakh region of Jammu & Kashmir. Spread over 80,000 sq. km, this cold desert is shut for almost eight months in a year. About 89% of people live in rural areas.
The villages are remote, unconnected and inaccessible. Agriculture in this region is different from that of the other rural areas in India, since farming can be done only for four months. Further, the soil suffers from moisture stress. There are socio-economic constraints as well — small land holdings, low productivity, labor shortage, poor post-harvest management and marketing of produce.
In winter, Ladakh imports vegetables worth lakhs from other parts of the country. People do not get access to green vegetables in winter, and as a result, they suffer from nutritional issues.
Farmers here construct vegetable cellars, and store potatoes and onions underground. They take them out for consumption in winter. Some people pickle vegetables like carrot to eat in winter. But most of the local people consume meat, pulses and dairy products in winter.