La raccolta dello zafferano in Kashmir

A Kashmiri villager picks saffron flowers from a saffron field in Pampore, some 25 km south of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 26 October 2011. Pampore is famous worldwide for its high quality Saffron production. Kashmir is the only place in India, and one of the few places in the world where saffron, the world’s most expensive spice grows, to be more specific only on the plateau land of Pampore, just outside Srinagar. (Epa/Farooq Khan)