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Kashmir’s potato pits are vanishing – and generations of knowledge could be buried for ever

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Kashmir’s potato pits are vanishing – and generations of knowledge could be buried for ever
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Farmers in Gurez store their harvests underground to last the Himalayan winter. As the practice fades, local varieties and handed-down skills are disappearing tooHajra Begum rolls a potato in her hands, checking its skin for cuts, soft spots and signs of rot. After a day harvesting in her family’s field in Chorwan, a remote mountain village in Gurez, Indian-administered Kashmir, she is sorting the crop for winter storage. Some of the potatoes will feed her family through the cold months; others

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