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Hopar Valley treats the villages of Hopar beside the Bualtar Glacier, in Nagar District, as a cannabis growing area: their setting, the seed collection named for them and its uses. The Hispar valley upstream is treated at Hispar Valley, and the district at Nagar District.
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Why Hopar is a growing area
- The page rests on one seed collection that names the valley: seed from the winter 2022 harvest, sold by The Real Seed Company as Hopar Valley and deposited by its collector in the United States genebank as G 33713. The donor's note there calls it a landrace cultivated in the upper Hopar Valley.
- The seller's listing names no village or farmer, and the seed came through an intermediary. No other source read says that cannabis is grown in Hopar.
- The status is Active because the collection was made in 2022.
Extent and border
- The map border is approximate and is drawn on the terrain. It takes the part of the Hispar River basin that drains past the Hopar villages and the Bualtar Glacier, and keeps only the ground below 3,500 m that joins the villages. The Hispar valley above the junction with the Gharesa stream, and the Gharesa basin on the north bank, are left out.
- The border was not drawn from the collection's coordinates, which are given to two decimals only.
- The area figure in the infobox is rounded from the border.
Sources
- Setting. Gardner and Hewitt (1990) describe the Bualtar Glacier, the Hopar villages beside it and the effect of the glacier's 1987 surge on the people of Hopar. The paper spells the district "Nagir".
- Cultivation. The seller's listing, as it stood in September 2026, is used only for what it says about its own seed: harvest, colour and uses. The genebank entry is cited as it stood in October 2026.
- Medicinal use. Salim and colleagues (2019) record cannabis among the medicinal plants of Gilgit-Baltistan, with its seed used in Nagar and Hunza. Their survey is not specific to Hopar.
What the sources do not cover
- No source read describes cannabis fields, growers or a growing season in the Hopar villages themselves, apart from the seller's listing and the donor's note.