Studies show that substances like surfactants used in adhesives are toxic. The Punjab Food Safety department has asked traders not to paste stickers on fruit and vegetable sellers, noting that these can pose health hazards to consumers. The Food Safety Teams have been directed to check the sale of such …
The prosperous apple belts of the state, Jubbal-Kotkhai and Kotgarh in Shimla district, are set to get a major boost in controlled-atmospheric storage of apples, with the Agricultural & Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) sanctioning Rs 11.5 crore for the project. APEDA is a body under the Ministry …
Want cash, wait for sometime Apple growers whose produce was procured under the Market Intervention Scheme (MIS) will have to accept bulk of the payment in kind, mostly in the shape of farm inputs, because of cash crunch being faced by government procurement agencies. The record crop of 8.92 lakh …
The Economic Survey for the year 2010-11 presented in the assembly today pegged the annual growth rate at 9 per cent with the per capita income expected to increase by 9.4 per cent. Presenting the Economic Survey in the House on the eve of presentation of the budget for the …
The government has sanctioned Rs 16 crore for two important roads in the apple belt to facilitate smooth transportation of the fruit.Horticulture Minister Narinder Bragta said here today that Rs 10.09 crore had been sanctioned under the first phase for widening and improvement of a 30 km stretch on the …
The long winter season in the upper reaches of Himachal has raised hope of a quality apple crop in the upcoming season. This is good news for apple growers, as last year, despite a bumper crop, the growers had to pick small fruit due to early flowering in the month …
Besides the famous rock-cut Masroor temple, hydro-electric projects, apple orchards and dam sites will now be publicised as new tourism destinations among schoolchildren of Himachal and other states. During a seminar held at Dharamsala on Masroor temple of Kangra district on Tuesday, Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal said the state …
Mandi: The high-profile Raid-de-Himalayas motor sport rally that reached today at Keylong in snowbound Lahaul-Spiti raised the ire of environmentalists, farmers and tribal writers. They said an ear-blowing convoy of over 140 vehicles had created havoc. Highlighting the impact of the motor rally in the peaceful sylvan valleys of Himalayas, …
Farmers in the high-altitude orchards are a shattered lot as more than 40 per cent of the fruit has dropped in the apple belt in the last leg of the season. This correspondent found it difficult to walk in the apple orchards as it was almost littered with rotting or …
With population growth, massive pressure has been put on natural resources to produce more agricultural products, whilst million tons of agricultural products go to waste during agricultural process. The main purpose of the study was to investigate effective factors in apple waste in Zanjan Province, Iran.
SHIMLA: The Himachal Government would send a group of progressive farmers and apple growers to Israel next month to learn the latest farming techniques, the State Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal said here on Sunday after his meeting with Agriculture Councillor in Embassy of Israel, Dr. Avri Bar Zur. Mr …
Hem Lata Verma The exceptionally high rainfall recorded across the cold desert of Lahaul and Spiti district from April to July this year has surprised as well as shocked everyone. The district administration is busy compiling data from villages of the large tracts of agricultural land that have been washed …
Satya Devi’s 35 apple trees have borne few fruits this year. The 60- year-old blames it on too little moisture in the soil and too much dust in the air that settles on the leaves. The horticulture department of Hima chal Pradesh agrees. Construction of dams on the Sutlej in …
THE food inflation might be worrying the consumer, but apple prices are currently 35-40% less than the previous year, hovering at Rs 35-50 a kg in the retail market. Apart from the low quality of fruit, the availability of the mango crop in the market is also curtailing the price …
Charanjit Ahuja Chandigarh: Last week's hailstorm in many parts of Himachal Pradesh has damaged apple crop in large tracts of land. According to input received from apple growers, scientists and horticulture officials, the hail storm not only damaged fruit but also apple tree leaves and spur. Over 50% of apple …
Hem Lata Verma Nearly a century after it brought in an unprecedented boom in apple cultivation in Himachal Pradesh, Kotgarh in Shimla district is set to usher in yet another era of sweeping horticulture reforms. A first-of-its-kind
Shimla: With barely 10 per cent of the work having been completed on the Theog-Kotkhai-Hatkoti-Rohru road being executed by the Chinese Longijian Road and Construction Company, apple growers are a worried lot despite expectations of a bumper crop. Work on the two roads, including the Mehatpur-Amb-Una raod, being constructed under …
Mandi/Kullu: High temperature and drought has started giving heartburns to apple farmers who own orchards in the south sunny face as they are facing moth attack on the fruit crop since last week. This has damaged almost 10-20 per cent of crop in some drought-hit areas in Churag-Karsog in Mandi, …
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal plans to replicate Israel's success in apple cultivation in his state. "With no snowfall and much lesser rain than us, they produce 50 tonnes of apple per hectare.We produce one-fifth of it, " he says. Apple production dropped almost to half in the …
Unfavourable weather conditions over the past one year took a heavy toll of the apple crop with the total production declining by over 45 per cent as compared to last year. Though the apple season officially came to an end on October 31, stray trucks carrying fruit are still moving …
