Non-local workers harvest rice by cutting the rice stalks at paddy fields in the outskirts of Srinagar, in Indian Administered Kashmir on 28 September 2018. Rice is the staple food in the Kashmir valley and is still the principal crop cultivated in the area although more frequent droughts and scarcer rainfall together with limited irrigation infrastructures have reduced this year rice yield. The autumn season marks the paddy harvesting period in Kashmir where rice cultivation is also an integral component of the cultural heritage of the state

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