Kashmir’s bows are hot for people and farms

Zaine Begum was helpless next to the vibrating the paddy area.

A farmer in the Pulwama district of Kashmir, Kashmir, India, he expected more than a month, waiting for more than a month to save his product from dying.

So it was hopeful when it was finally raining early this week.

“But then it was too late,” he said. “Our land was completely drained.”

A strong heat wave, as the record levels increased this month this month, the glaciers and a picturesque Himalayan area known for the cool climate caught Kashmir.

The region’s highest temperature was 37.4c (99.32F) in 70 years – in the seasonal average in at least 7C.

Valley also witnessed in the hottest June in 50 years, officials were asked to close schools and colleges in two weeks.

After receiving heavy rains in the region this week, this week has come this week, but experts say that the relief is temporary and warned more than in the coming days.

Variable weather samples have shown a devastating effect to local residents, and most of them rely on agriculture for their livelihood. Many struggle to stay in the work, while others complain about a drop in the product quality, and they cause great losses.

Mrs. Begum family Paddy – raised a high-water intensive product – in a hectare area in Chersoo region for decades (4046 square meters).

However, in the last five years, the rains have not been a single group of healthy products, as they gradually mistake.

“This summer is feeling that our worst fears come true,” he said. “We have nothing left.”

According to a study in 2021, the maximum temperature in Kashmir rose to 2C between 1980 and 2020, shows the average growth of 0.5c growth every decade.

Mukhtar Ahmad, head of the Indian Airlines Center in Srinagar, said that the region has witnessed three heat waves this season, the fact that great rivers and flows are dried.

Signs of damage seemed everywhere.

In the Bandipore district, Wilted apple trees sell the rows of the lot Ali Muhammad on 15 hectares.

Twenty years ago, he decided to turn the soils raised in an apple garden because it was very unreliable for the growing rice of air and water supply.

But now, even his apple product, which usually requires less water – fights to survive.

“Organs need water at least three times, but there was no rain in the last two months, and irrigation canals are dried,” he said.

The burning heat also opposed residents who did not agree to live at such high temperatures.

“I have witnessed such a intense wave in my life,” he said, 63-year-old Parvez Ahmed, who lives in the northern Kashmir.

A few days ago, Mr. Ahmad had to escape to the hospital after complaining with severe breathlessness.

“Doctors said it caused me to heat and humidity,” he said.

Environmentalists say climate change affects the region, extreme air events and the length of it in winter and in the summer.

Last year The snow-covered mountains in the region were strangely brown and barren After a long delay in the annual snowfall for months.

Although the hot winters caused a decrease in the snowfall, the hotels have accelerated the melting of the glaciers, and violated the availability of water and put human health and crops at risk.

“These trends are not only seasonal anomalies – in Kashmir, a system of water safety, agriculture and biodiversity is a system that can lead to long-term results,” Mr Azam added.

Mr Azam comes from the western disorders of the winter rain and the majority of the snow – storms and east of the East. However, these systems are weaker and less, it snows and causes delays in the snow scale.

“It refuses to be more common than usual, which reduces the glaciers and reduces the snow cover, the soil is less sunlight and more heat, hotter,” he said.

Yasia Bashir, a professor of Islamic Science and Technology Islamic Science and Technology University in Awantipipi district, makes Kashmir’s global carbon emissions and trusts in agriculture and tourism.

Again, the region was harshly hit by climate change – the victim of a crisis played in a small part in creating it.

“This is a global phenomenon, which is not limited to any region of climate change, tells you how.

He said that the region also witnessed rapid urbanization in recent years.

Extensive planting areas and forests have been replaced by concrete buildings, reduced the ability to adjust the local climate of the region.

According to the Global Forest Watch (GFW) report, more than 0.39% of the total tree cover between Jammu and Kashmir and Kashmir and forest fires in 2001 and 2023.

In addition, after the prescribability of statesmen and tea aggression, more than 600,000 trees in Kashmir have fallen in Kashmir over the past five years.

Ms. Bashir, Kashmir’s urban areas, especially greenhouse gas emissions, said higher energy requirements for air conditioners.

“This is a bad time: the rising temperature causes more energy use, which burns more waste and warms more,” he said.

Critics say, despite the growing risks, the environment issues are rarely headlines and are still a priority for Kashmir politicians.

Vocabulary of the selected government of the region Tanvir Sadiq rejected it and said that the management demanded the problem of climate change “very serious”.

“Climate change is a global phenomenon, and the government cannot solve it alone,” he said. “Again, we examine all available options to minimize the impact of people.”

But any movement for farmers like MS Begum should take place quickly.

“Otherwise, we will be convicted,” he said.

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