US EditionPhoto essay: Kashmir's pencil village faces a raw material crisis
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Photo essay: Kashmir's pencil village faces a raw material crisis
The village of Oukhoo, located a few kilometres from Pulwama town in South Kashmir, has long been known as the ‘pencil village of India’. Approximately 90 percent of the pencils produced in India originate here. However, the village’s once-flourishing pencil industry now stands at a crossroads, struggling with a severe shortage of poplar wood—the primary raw material for pencil slats.Stacks of poplar logs lie in the open at a pencil unit in Oukh…
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