Jammu, May 17 -- The Basmati rice of border town RS Pura-globally renowned for its exceptional quality, captivating aroma, and exquisite taste-is facing an unprecedented crisis. As geopolitical tensions escalate following the recent Indo-Pak conflict, the effects are rippling far beyond diplomatic halls and defense corridors. In the fragile border belts of Jammu, the impact is acutely felt in the soil, in the silence of idle fields, and in the lives of thousands of farmers caught in uncertainty.
The recent strain in India-Pakistan relations, intensified by the Pahalgam terrorist attack and the subsequent Operation Sindoor, has begun to cast a long shadow over agriculture in Jammu's border districts. Paddy cultivation, the lifeblood of this...