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Srinagar, Indian administered Kashmir – 5 September 2025
1. Various drone shots of floods ++ MUTE ++
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Pulwama, Indian administered Kashmir – 11 September 2025
2. Various of a flooded orchard, apples floating on floodwaters
3. Close-up of an apple smeared with mud
4. Wide of a farmer pushing a wheelbarrow filled with apples through floodwaters
5. Shift the focus of the apples lying in muddy water
6. Various of Javaid Ahmed, a farmer, collecting fallen apples from his orchard that was flooded
7. SOUNDBITE (Kashmiri) Javaid Ahmed, Farmer
" This orchard was under seven feet of water, higher than my height. The orchards have been damaged. Normally, this could yield 5,000 boxes of apples, but now, looking at what’s left on the trees, we can harvest a maximum of 600 boxes. I had invested nearly USD 5,500 in maintaining the orchards this season, and it’s all gone. We are now picking the fallen apples, washing them, and sending them to the markets."
8. Tilt down from apple trees to farmers picking up fallen apples from flood waters
9. Various of a farmer picking fallen apples from flood waters
10. Various of a farmer emptying a bucket of apples smeared in mud
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Srinagar, Indian administered Kashmir – 11 September 2025
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Faiz Bakshi, Secretary General, Kashmir chambers of commerce and Industries
" As of today we can say that about 150 to 200 crores ( $18.07 million to $24.10 million USD ) have been lost, are the damages suffered. That is direct damages of the apple. Then if you add up to that trucks, their hires, and all that income that is incurring also, the trucks will take time as they are stranded on the roads for eight to ten days or twelve days. So these are huge loss, the growers have suffered, the fruit dealers have suffered."
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Bijbehara, Indian administered Kashmir – 10 September 2025
12.Various of boxes of apples being loaded onto trucks
13.Various of Nisar Ahmed, an apple trader, checking the quality of apples
14. SOUNDBITE (Kashmiri) Nisar Ahmed, Apple trader
"It is the start of the harvest season, and what we are witnessing in Kashmir is worsening weather conditions. We are experiencing cloudbursts, heavy rainfall, and floods, due to which the early batch of apples has been damaged. The box of apples we purchased for 200 rupees ($2.40 ) now doesn’t even sell for 50 rupees ($0.60 ). We also have to pay much higher transport costs than what we are earning in the markets; it feels as if we are giving the apples away for free. It’s a huge loss for us"
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Qazigund, Indian administered Kashmir – 10 September 2025
15. Various of stranded trucks on the highway
16. Various of a stranded truck carrying apples
17. Various of a trucker sorting the apples after it was damaged
18. Various of Basit Lone, a truck driver, sorting the apple as many apple boxes on his truck were damaged
19. SOUNDBITE (Kashmiri/Urdu) Basit Lone, Truck driver
" The trader blames us. When these apple boxes reach the apple markets, we start the handover, the trader says that the apples are damaged. They don’t understand that we were stranded on the road. We are sorting the apples, those that are damaged we throw them away, we throw away about 20 boxes of apples."
20.Various of rotten apples lie scattered on the street, thrown away by truck drivers
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Srinagar, Indian administered Kashmir – 11 September 2025
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Faiz Bakshi, Secretary General, Kashmir chambers of commerce and Industries
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