date:Apr 17, 2020
While apple growers and traders in Kashmir are having to pay for cold storages, they are earning nothing as the coronavirus lockdown has forced all markets and transport to shut. As many as 100,000 tonnes of apples are lying in cold storages based in Lasipora Pulwama, Aglar Shopian, and some areas in north Kashmir. According to traders, there was satisfactory demand for apples but it all vanished overnight when the nation-wide lockdown began.
The apple industry in Kashmir had already suffered h