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March Sheshmir viewed the apples rotten as the main highway is blocked

Srinagar, Kashmir held by India – Javid, Javid Ahmad Ahmad Bhat fears that he or she will lose money every year in apples grow.

The two trucks pour out his apples worth more than $ 10,000 among the wires of the cleaned carriers on the main road that linked to his city, Baramullah, Kashmir managed by India to India’s remains. Their Tarpaulin includes funding and fruit crates that have begun to do so filthy and fall under the weight of decay.

“All our hard work is a whole year. What we are well raised from the spring is lost.

The National Highway Road – The only traffic congestion in the Himalayan Province – is often prevented from August 24 after the rainy damage was damaged by the rain. More than a month, the region is hit by the hardest monsoon, killing at least 170 people and causes great damage to buildings, roads, and other infrastructure.

The truck driver shows apples to be rotten in his car in Jammu-Srinagar, after the closure of the highway, the jurgagund town, September 10, 2025 [Sharafat Ali/Reuters]

Blookade in Top During the High Harvest

The Horticulture built a Kashmir economic backback, and a village that produces about 20-25 million tons of apples annually – about 78 percent of Al Jazeera collected from organizational farmers.

Highway Block is encountered Tashmir harvesting time, located in the “Harud” place, where apples, walnuts and rice collected thousands of fruits and fields across the district.

“It’s not just me or my village – this problem [road closure] It beats all the Apple’s Apple for Kashmir’s Apple. Our living depends on the harvest, “Bhat said, the second river in the regional economy after Pahalgam attacks in April, when it disturbed Pahalgam rebels, another key sector in the district.

Local Government Officer, in the form of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said 4,000 trucks recognized in South Africa, and the full fruit began to begin, caused by a limited loss about $ 146m.

Through the protest, growers closed the fruit markets at Kashmir on Monday and Tuesday as they lost the ungodly inability to erase the key road.

“If the main road is even under fewer days, our loss will pass the thought,” said Shphaq Ahmad, a fruit farmer Espopore Town, told Al Jazeera.

ISPOPORE IN Baramulla District, approximately 28 kilometers) from Srinagar, is a home for the largest Asian fruit. But Sprawling Complex was a place of despair on Tuesday. New apple crates are always full of lasting wait, as each passing day reduces their number, or bad, they are influenced by their romance. Some measurements that the apple box price just had fallen from 600 rupees ($ 7) to 400 rupees ($ 5).

“We stop bringing many apples to the market here. We are obliged to leave the fruit plants because there is no space left, and the left trucks were growing on the main road,” said Ahmad.

Botten apples lying on the ground near trucks combined on the highway of the Jamu-Srinagar

The bread apples lying on the ground near the trucks combined with the mainland of the jammu-Srinagar, after the closure of the highway, the jurgagund town, September District, September 10, 2025 [Sharafat Ali/ Reuters]

‘Nothing is going’

Fayaz Ahmad Malik, President of Kashmir Fruit Graders’ Association, It means ten percent of trucks left in New Delhi on Tuesday after 20 days’ standing on the highway, but thousands remain attached.

“Our first estimates just run to the slices [millions].

Dealing with the problem, Manoj Sinha, the Chief Executive Officer appointed by New Delhi, on September 15 He was presented by a deducted train at the Budgam station in the central part of India Kashmir to New Delhi to move fruit, highly reduced, increasing the provincial economic economy.

“In fact, a passenger train coach, not a full-time commercial train,” the train train told Al Jazeera, which was not approved by the train.

However, farmers say the estimate gives only relief to the Kashrir, which produce about two million appleons annually.

“It [the special train] Good moves, but in such a position, it will be possible about one apple truck a day, which is far less than growers.

Since the anger and frustration of talented trucks, Greater Mill of District Omar Abdullah, a powerful management of the region controlled by New Delhi, on Tuesday, said the Federal government was able to save from him.

“Be patient, we expect daily reassurance that refund will be completed, but nothing was done,” Abdullah said on reporters on September 15 in Sprinistagar, the largest city.

At that time, the post office at X on September 16, Niniti Gadkari, State Minister of Transport and transportation Minister of Transport, said 50 Earthmovers were sent to the work cycle to clear the highway jammmu-Srinagar.

“We are determined to restore this vital worlds highway to the full power at first, to ensure safety and convenience to all road users,” wrote.

However, the Minister’s assurances provide a small comfort in Shabir Ahmad, a juggigger driver, who is up in his van every morning to check apple boxes.

“We are hit here for 20 days, and the government reflects the urgency to restore the road. Losses are more than thoughts.

He said farmers received their product decay across silent silently and returned the road, they demanded the drop-down-to-date. Nothing goes, in each passing day, our fruit becomes waste. “

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