Even in the world of spices, saffron is the most prominent. And real saffron can cost more than INR 350,000, or $ 4,400 per kilogram. Used for thousands of years as a spice, as a colourant and as a medicinal element

At a time when outdoor saffron in Kashmir is facing three major challenges—lack of irrigation facilities, conversion of saffron land, and shortage of saffron corns, farmers in Kashmir's Saffron bowl