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| Desperate over low market prizes, Kashmir traders lit 'apple bonfire' | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Dec 6
Mortified and despaired by sharp fall in the prizes in the fruit markets across the country many Kashmiri traders have reportedly been consigning the lots of apple box to fire in desperation.
The shocking reports have been pouring in the valley for some time now that the traders who have taken apple freights to the fruit markets across the country are setting ablaze the boxes for not getting desirable prizes.
Sources said that many fear that huge losses being incurred by the fruit growers may not set in suicide spree among the farmers of the state like those of Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh. They said
According to the apple growers back in Kashmir, those who have taken the annul harvest to the fruit markets are on seeing no improvement in the rates at the Mandies are taking the harsh step in desperation.
"Having incurred over Rupees two hundred per box of apple they are not getting even what they have spent , not to say the pains taken by the traders to transport the freights to the fruit Mandies as far away as Mumbai , Ahmedabad , Bangalore and New Delhi", said one Mohammad Ashraf while talking to KMT on phone.
The average cost borne by the traders to transport per box to various fruit Mandies from the valley ranges from 200 to 350 against which they are getting just Rs 250 no matter he is selling it in Dehli , Ludhiana or as far away as Mumbai , said an orchard owner from Zanpur Pulwama who had recently heard that his agent trader has set one lot of apple boxes on fire at Azadpur mandi Delhi. |
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