Talk:Bijbehara (appellation)

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Bijbehara (appellation) treats the cannabis-growing villages round Bijbehara, in the Anantnag district, within the Kashmir Valley growing area.

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Kashmir Life (5 December 2011) names twelve places "in the Bijhbehara belt" where cannabis was grown, and describes the fields at Dupathyaar.
Kashmir Reader (2 June 2026) reports cultivated cannabis destroyed on private land at Nai Basti, Marhama, with the case registered at the Bijbehara police station.
Two reports fifteen years apart name the belt; single reports from elsewhere in the valley (Lidroo near Pahalgam, the Lolab, Malhara in Shopian) are described on the Kashmir Valley page and have no appellation of their own.

The border is Bijbehara tehsil in OpenStreetMap (relation 10380142), about 155 km². It is a proxy for "the Bijbehara belt", which the 2011 report does not map.
Of the twelve places, only Veeri could be located with a geocoder, and it falls inside the tehsil; Marhama also falls inside. The one point found for a Thajiwara lies a few kilometres outside, to the south-east; whether it is the Thajiwara of the report has not been checked. The other places could not be located.
The map point (33.79, 75.11) is Bijbehara town.

Both reports were read in full. The 2026 report names the owner of the land at Marhama; the article does not.
The 2011 report's claim, from unnamed "reliable sources", that Dupathyaar was "the biggest producer of cannabis in north India" is not repeated in the article.