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India: Modern farming techniques changing lives in Ladakh

For Tsetan Punchok, a 50-something farmer from the distant village of Partapur in Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir, life was difficult in the 3,000-metre highlands where summer lasts barely four months and for long, he could only grow potatoes and turnips.

His life, however, changed in the last few years when he came in touch with scientists of the Defence Institute of High Altitude Research (DIHAR).

DIHAR, a laboratory of premier Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) based in Leh has been researching on techniques of growing fruits and vegetables in the cold desert of Ladakh, and is helping hundreds of farmers here to earn better living and higher production.

While greenhouses for maintaining temperature are expensive and not affordable for all farmers, the Leh-based laboratory has developed simple techniques like trench farming and use of polythene sheets that help farmers grow a variety of vegetables like cabbages, onions, spinach, gourd and even watermelons in a highland which did not know any of these vegetables a decade back.

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