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Football Trials for the Kashmir Champions Football League are coming very soon!
Your chance to be scouted, celebrated, and compete at the highest level is near.

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J&K Sports Council & Volleyball Association jammu & Kashmir jointly present the South Kashmir Volleyball League 2026 under Nasha Mukt Jammu-Kashmir Abhiyaan.

📅 14–17 May | Shopian

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Indoor stadium Arhama shopian completed by the jammu and kashmir sports council

Kashmir is not just growing apples anymore.
We are growing something far more dangerous.

Let me say this slowly—
because this is not WhatsApp theory, not politics, not noise.

This is data.
This is medicine.
This is reality.

A study from SKIMS, Srinagar looked at brain cancer patients in Kashmir.

What did it find?

👉 90% of brain tumor patients were orchard workers, residents, or children exposed to pesticides for 10–20 years. 

Read that again.
Not 10%.
Not 30%.

Ninety percent.

And what were they exposed to?

👉 Chlorpyrifos.
Mancozeb.
Captan.
Dimethoate. 

These are not random chemicals.
These are the same chemicals that are part of official spray schedules.

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Now let’s connect the dots—without fear, without filters.

🌿 Mancozeb — used for decades in Kashmir orchards
→ Breaks down into ETU, linked to cancer pathways
→ Used in hundreds of metric tonnes every season 

🧪 Chlorpyrifos — an organophosphate
→ Neurotoxic
→ Linked in multiple studies to cancers and neurological damage

☠️ Captan
→ Absorbed through skin, inhalation, ingestion
→ Used repeatedly across spray cycles 

💉 Dimethoate
→ Systemic pesticide
→ Part of long-term exposure clusters in cancer cases 

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And here’s the part nobody wants to say loudly:

These are not illegal chemicals in Kashmir.
These are recommended.
Scheduled.
Institutionalized.

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We built an economy around apples.
But we never built a safety system around the people growing them.

Farmers spray without PPE.
Children grow up inside orchards.
Homes sit inside chemical zones.

And then one day—
we call it “mysterious cancer rise.”

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Let me be brutally honest.

This is not just a farmer problem.
This is not just a rural problem.

👉 This is in your fruit.
👉 This is in your soil.
👉 This is in your water.

And over time—
this becomes part of your blood.

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Even outside orchards, the story doesn’t end.

In agriculture:

👉 Atrazine (used in crops like maize) is now classified as
“probably carcinogenic to humans” (