Apple orchards are filled with spoiled fruit and half the crucial harvest is feared destroyed in a nearly three-month clampdown by New Delhi.
A Kashmiri boy walks through a road scattered with apple boxes at the site of an attack in Shopian, south of Srinagar, on Oct. 25, 2019.
injured, bringing to four the number of apple industry workers killed since September as suspected separatists try to bully traders and drivers to cease working to protest India’s crackdown.With no one to pick them, “when apples are ripe, they start falling,” said Peer Muhammad Ashraf, whose family owns about two acres of orchards in Arihal, a village below the Himalayan foothills of southern Kashmir. “Almost 50% of our crop has fallen and has been destroyed.
The Indian government has promised to buy up all of Kashmir’s apple crop to aid farmers. Sanjeev Kumar Chadha, managing director of India’s National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation, told the India Today network that it was “a golden opportunity” and that farmers would make 30% more than in past years because the government sales would cut out middlemen.this month but many farmers say they still expect to sustain major losses because so much of the harvest has been lost.
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