Kashmir Apple

Rain, frequent windstorm and hailstorm has severely impacted horticulture and agriculture - the mainstay of Kashmir's rural economy. The erratic weather has plunged temperature several degrees below normal in Kashmir.

On his visit to India, Apple chief executive officer (CEO) Tim Cook on Wednesday evening met Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw at the Railway Ministry office in the national capital.

Almost every year due to untimely rainfall, paddy in Jammu and apple in Kashmir suffer huge losses, says top bureaucrat

Over 10,000 vehicles, including 8,820 fruit trucks, were released through Navyug and Jawahar Tunnels in the past 24 hours

Trucks were allowed to move on Monday after protests across the valley; growers say 8,000 trucks with apples worth crores were stuck

Amid a crisis over thousands of tonnes of apple rotting in stranded trucks along the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway, the Jammu and Kashmir administration has decided to allow held-up trucks to move towards Jammu tonight.

The alert comes on a day when a Kashmiri Pandit was shot dead and his brother injured in firing by terrorists at an apple orchard in the Shopian district.

A civilian died and another was injured after terrorists opened fire at them at an apple orchard in Shopian, Kashmir police said today. Both are Hindus, police added.

Thousands of farmers in the Kashmir Valley are facing a new and unusual enemy to their livelihood - porcupines - large, thorny rodents that are attacking almond and apple trees.

The police said that they were investigating the case and initial reports suggest that Ajaz, who appears to be in his 20s, was killed in a crossfire.

Apple in India is generally associated with Jammu & Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh, but an enterprising farmer in Maharashtra's Nashik district has successfully cultivated the popular fruit in his farm.

Meet 32-year Bikramjit Chakma, who wants to cover the tropical hills of the northeastern state of Tripura with Kashmir's famed "ber apples".

The vast patches of land at Kani Dajan village are dotted with chopped apple trees. Even sapling have not been spared. A Jammu and Kashmir forest department drive to retrieve forest land from alleged encroachers is not only dispossessing villagers from land they have been farming for generations, thousands of apple trees, too, have been mowed down ...

Highlighting the angst of Jammu and Kashmir apple growers who haven't been able to sell their crop because of the coronavirus pandemic and resultant lockdowns, Lt Governor GC Murmu has written to the Ministry of Home Affairs, demanding extension of the Market Intervention Scheme under which the government procures the produce.

The nationwide coronavirus lockdown has badly hit apple farmers in Jammu and Kashmir. As the farmers are not finding market for their produce, over three million cartons of apples are lying in cold storage.

Rain, frequent windstorm and hailstorm has severely impacted horticulture and agriculture - the mainstay of Kashmir's rural economy. The erratic weather has plunged temperature several degrees below normal in Kashmir.

On his visit to India, Apple chief executive officer (CEO) Tim Cook on Wednesday evening met Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw at the Railway Ministry office in the national capital.

Almost every year due to untimely rainfall, paddy in Jammu and apple in Kashmir suffer huge losses, says top bureaucrat

Over 10,000 vehicles, including 8,820 fruit trucks, were released through Navyug and Jawahar Tunnels in the past 24 hours

Trucks were allowed to move on Monday after protests across the valley; growers say 8,000 trucks with apples worth crores were stuck

Amid a crisis over thousands of tonnes of apple rotting in stranded trucks along the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway, the Jammu and Kashmir administration has decided to allow held-up trucks to move towards Jammu tonight.

The alert comes on a day when a Kashmiri Pandit was shot dead and his brother injured in firing by terrorists at an apple orchard in the Shopian district.

A civilian died and another was injured after terrorists opened fire at them at an apple orchard in Shopian, Kashmir police said today. Both are Hindus, police added.

Thousands of farmers in the Kashmir Valley are facing a new and unusual enemy to their livelihood - porcupines - large, thorny rodents that are attacking almond and apple trees.

The police said that they were investigating the case and initial reports suggest that Ajaz, who appears to be in his 20s, was killed in a crossfire.

Apple in India is generally associated with Jammu & Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh, but an enterprising farmer in Maharashtra's Nashik district has successfully cultivated the popular fruit in his farm.

Meet 32-year Bikramjit Chakma, who wants to cover the tropical hills of the northeastern state of Tripura with Kashmir's famed "ber apples".

The vast patches of land at Kani Dajan village are dotted with chopped apple trees. Even sapling have not been spared. A Jammu and Kashmir forest department drive to retrieve forest land from alleged encroachers is not only dispossessing villagers from land they have been farming for generations, thousands of apple trees, too, have been mowed down ...

Highlighting the angst of Jammu and Kashmir apple growers who haven't been able to sell their crop because of the coronavirus pandemic and resultant lockdowns, Lt Governor GC Murmu has written to the Ministry of Home Affairs, demanding extension of the Market Intervention Scheme under which the government procures the produce.

The nationwide coronavirus lockdown has badly hit apple farmers in Jammu and Kashmir. As the farmers are not finding market for their produce, over three million cartons of apples are lying in cold storage.