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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Pulwama MLA Waheed Ur Rehman Para drives a tractor while helping prepare a paddy field for transplantation alongside local farmers on disputed agricultural land in Padgampora and Dangerpora villages of south Kashmir's Pulwama district.]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ A receipt reviewed by Kashmir Times showing payment of Aabiyana (irrigation water charges) to the Jammu and Kashmir Irrigation and Flood Control Department. Farmers cite such records as evidence of their long-standing cultivation and use of the disputed agricultural land in Padgampora and adjoining villages of Pulwama district in Kashmir.]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ A receipt reviewed by Kashmir Times showing payment of Aabiyana (irrigation water charges) to the Jammu and Kashmir Irrigation and Flood Control Department. Farmers cite such records as evidence of their long-standing cultivation and use of the disputed agricultural land in Padgampora and adjoining villages of Pulwama district in Kashmir.]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Signboard put up on a tree trunk, declaring the agriculture fields as government land in a village of Pulwama district in Kashmir by the Revenue Department of the government.]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Local farmers, joined by Pulwama MLA Waheed Ur Rehman Para transplant paddy saplings in a disputed agricultural field in Padgampora-Dangerpora on 8 June 2026. The re-sowing campaign was undertaken days after farmers alleged that revenue authorities had uprooted freshly transplanted paddy and restricted cultivation on the land.]]></image:caption>
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