By Peerzada Waseem
Sopore: Wular lake is also famous for its production of Kashmiri Nelumbium (Nadroo) however the extractors now claim the production has drastically decreased citing many reason including pollution of the asia’s one of largest fresh water lakes.
Gh Hassan a 50 year old man from Zurumanz area said that: “The Nadroo and fishes are facing threat of disappearance due to increasing the pollution in the water body. Government is completely failed to restores Wular Lake clean.”
Other farmers claim that lake would earlier provide bulk portion of the nadroo production in valley however things have 30% Nadroo yield of kashmir valley .The production of Nadroo has decreased after the 2014 floods in Kashmir.
The farmers said that all sorts of solid and liquid wastes including animal carcasses and other wastes from human settlements throughout valley are finally deposited into the Wular lake.
This, they said, has not only posed threat to Nadroo but to river body itself and other fish species itself.
Farmers claim that people attached to Wular, fishermen or farmers, including Watlab, Zurmanz, Astangoo, Kemah, Paribal and its adjoining areas have suffered immensely as the production has been sinking.
“We will sow seeds of Nadroo on the banks of Wular Lake, so we will increase the production of nadroo in upcoming years,” Irfan Ahmad, WUCMA officer told INS.
