date:Mar 05, 2019
The frequent closure of the Srinagar-Jammu highway is taking a heavy toll on fruit growers and traders in southern Shopian and Pulwama districts.
One of my fruit trucks reached Delhi almost three weeks late and around 50 percent of the fruit had turned rotten, said a fruit grower from Shopian.
Mushtaq Ahmad Malik, president of the fruit growers association said around 25 to 30 percent of the total fruit is still lying in various cold stores in Kashmir.
Many growers and traders did not export