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Lassipora, located in South Kashmir, becomes a bustling hub of activity even at midnight during the apple harvest season. This region, anticipated to be India's largest apple industry cluster, faces unique challenges in 2023 due to low apple production in Himachal and Kashmir. Mechanical grading and packing processes are gaining popularity, saving time and ensuring efficiency. The cold storage chain in Kashmir is expanding rapidly, with investments exceeding Rs 2500 crore. However, investor...

The Himachal apple market maintains stability thanks to a government practice preventing low-quality apples from reaching the main market. In contrast, Kashmir faced challenges in implementing a similar strategy. The Market Intervention Scheme (MIS) aimed to utilise lower-grade apples for other sectors but faced obstacles and was discontinued. Recently, a revived MIS could help the apple concentrate industry in Kashmir grow, improving overall apple quality and reducing market dependence on China...

 KULGAM : One of the main industries supporting the economy of Kashmir is horticulture bearing variety of fruits and providing sustenance to a major chunk rural population particularly those living on keravas and high terrains . Due to the tempe

In an open market economy, cheap Iranian apple imports into India and impacting the price curve of the Kashmir apple in the months of December and January. The report offers a wide view of the apple market in India and how Kashmir, the principal apple grower, in the region must adjust to it by adopting the ecnomy of scale.

By Shakir Ashraf SRINAGAR: The import of Iranian kiwis via Afghanistan to India has triggered a new concern for Kashmir’s apple growers. After a contagious quarantine pest was discovered in the cheap imported fruit, early December, concern is mounting.

The Kashmir valley in the last decade has seen major climatic changes like early snowfall due to which farmers have lost around 40% of their crops every year. 

  JAMMU : A three day online Annual Zonal Workshop of Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVK)s for 2020-21 under ICAR-ATARI, Zone-I started today. The workshop has been organized with the objective to review the work carried out by KVKs of Zone-1 during the previous year and approval of an action plan for the year 2021-22. The workshop was inaugurated by Dr. T. Mohapatra, Secretary (DARE) & DG (ICAR), New Delhi who was Chief Guest, on the occasion. Dr. B.S. Dhillon, Former Vice Chancellor, PAU, Ludhiana w...

Apr 17, 2021 This will pave the way forward for getting good economic returns for the grower, said Chief Horticulture Officer, Kulgam, Dr. M. Iqbal Baba. Experts from the Horticulture department are helping farmers in adopting new High Density Apple plants in the field and are educating them regarding the process.  

SRINAGAR: The Administrative Council under the chairmanship of Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha approved the implementation of a high-density plantation scheme in the horticulture sector with the support of the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd (NAFED). The step will go a long way in enhancing the quality and quantity of horticulture produce and doubling the farmer’s income. The farmer-centric scheme will be implemented for apple, walnut, almond, cherry, litc...

Bitter Harvest The political turmoil of the past eighteen months has hit Kashmir’s apple industry hard.  The entry of the NAFED and the import of duty-free Iranian apples through the Afghanistan route is being seen as interventions that will upset the apple-cart further, reports  Yawar Hussain A local worker packing apples. KL Image by Bilal Bahadur When Jammu and Kashmir administration signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing ...