PAMPORE, India -- Kashmiri saffron farmer Abdul Majeed Wani should be a happy man, as prices for the "world's most expensive spice" are up this year and production is down in top-grower Iran.
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Kashmir's saffron growers struggle to rekindle 'red gold' glory days
Climate change has battered output of world's priciest spice in northern India
Many farmers are giving up on growing saffron, a sector that once supported about 30,000 families in the mountain-ringed Kashmir Valley. (Photo by Faisal Bashir)
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