Pulwama Apple Dairy Milk Production Conflict District Kashmir

Pulwama district in the Kashmir Valley is intensively cultivated with apple orchards in its Tral and Awantipora areas and supports a significant dairy economy — the district's cooperative milk collection network supplies milk to Kashmir Valley's urban centres. Pulwama's Awantipora contains the ruins of two large 9th-century Pratihara-era temples (Avantishwara and Avantiswamin) with elaborately carved stonework equal in quality to the best of Kashmiri medieval architecture. The district is agriculturally productive on the fertile Jhelum floodplain growing paddy (rice), maize, and vegetables, with the Jhelum canal irrigation system supplying the rice-growing villages.