{"id":4546,"date":"2020-05-21T13:08:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T13:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=4546"},"modified":"2020-05-21T13:08:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T13:08:08","slug":"covid-19-casts-shadow-on-cherry-crop-in-kashmir-growers-staring-at-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/21\/covid-19-casts-shadow-on-cherry-crop-in-kashmir-growers-staring-at-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 casts shadow on cherry crop in Kashmir, growers staring at losses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the harvesting of Kashmir\u2019s first crop \u2014 cherry, expected to surpass 12,000-metric tonne mark this year \u2014 has started, the growers of the perishable fruit are staring at losses due to the nationwide lockdown to combat Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Besides, shortage of pesticides and packaging boxes, non-availability of two main markets \u2014 Mumbai and Ahmedabad due to lockdown \u2014 is giving sleepless night to the growers, who fear that they may not be able to export the fruit or find buyers outside due to closure of markets.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the harvesting of Kashmir\u2019s first crop \u2014 cherry, expected to surpass 12,000-metric tonne mark this year \u2014 has started, the growers of the perishable fruit&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4546","post","has-post-thumbnail","category-kashmir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}