date:Nov 25, 2021
For the third year in a row, Kashmiri farmers will lose half their harvest to early snows. This might mean that domestic apples are in danger of becoming a rarity in India. Early snowfalls in Kashmir, where almost 80% of Indias apples are grown, have seen the regions farmers lose half their crops. Officials are trying to calculate the loss to the apple industry, which contributes almost a third 50 billion rupees (500m) to the local economy annually.
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