Watch | Srinagar’s floating market re-opens a year after floods

Vendors at Kashmir's floating vegetable market have started to return after much of the infrastructure and farmland around the popular trading spot was destroyed in floods last year. Boats laden with fresh produce appear just after dawn, floating through a maze of waterways on Dal Lake in the main city of India's portion of Kashmir. For generations this market in the middle of the lake has also seen traders selling flowers to tourists who stay in the houseboats. But flooding in September last year destroyed thousands of homes and infrastructure worth crores in Kashmir, including the floating market. Growing vegetables in the lake has just about started again but nadur or the lotus stem, a delicacy in Kashmir, will take another year or two, farmers say. It's one of the major sources of income for the lake dwellers who spend years carefully nurturing their floating gardens from the weed and rich soil extracted from the lake bed.

Growers say the production is still low but they're happy to be back.