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In pictures: Apples rot in Pulwama after a ruinous week of highway blockage

After thousands of trucks were stuck on the Kashmir – Jammu highway recently, bringing hundreds of crores worth of Kashmiri apples on the verge of decay, pictures have emerged showing orchards littered with rotting apples.

Kashmir’s highway blockage for sudden ‘repairs’, has been widely blamed on an inept, and allegedly malicious J&K administration. When after days of protests, the trucks were finally allowed to leave, the ensuing snag had already left a ripple effect in Kashmir’s orchards. These tragic pictures from Pulwama show tons of apples dumped by the roadside.

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Farmers claim they are not even making enough money to transport apples

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Top quality apples like ‘Delicious’ are being sold at prices as low as 10-20 Rupees a kg

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These apples have never been seen in local markets before because their demand outside Kashmir is so high

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Incidentally, this year saw a bumper yield of Apples in Kashmir

 

Details of the inhuman blockade can be read here and here.

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