date:Jul 24, 2012
The apple industry in Himachal Pradesh is facing an acute labour shortage that has forced growers to find ways to overcome the problem.
The growers are having to modernise quickly and embrace new technologies. The government in the state has recently received a number of applications for the setting up of grading plants for sorting the crop.
Usually much of the sorting work is carried out by Nepalese labourers, but recently there has been a decline in the flow of such workers.
The reason for