Origin Story of Chilli Peppers in Pakistan's Kunri Region

The agent that infiltrated Pakistan’s red hot chilli peppers

Name: Kunri, Umerkot Pop.: 26,600 Area: 585 km² The farmers say the origin story goes something like this. In the sixties, a handful of chilli seeds travelled south from Radha Ram in Punjab to Kunri in Sindh. Harvest after hot harvest proved so successful that within two decades the town shot to fame as the red chilli capital of Asia. The farmers put their fortune down to divine largesse but the scientific explanation is far more mundane: Kunri simply had exactly the right climate for a brief...

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