date:May 17, 2013
The State government will not compel apple growers of the state to use universally recognised cartons for packaging of apples, horticulture minister Vidya Stokes said.
She said growers could arrange cartons for apple packaging from Himachal Pradesh Horticultural Produce Marketing, Processing Cooperation Limited and Himachal Pradesh State Co-operative Marketing and Consumers Federation Limited and other private agencies.
The previous government decided to purchase 40,000 universal cartons, out