With the advent of Summer-green, Red Gold, Tydeman and Applejune (early ripping strain of apple) aroma at Shimla and Chandigarh fruit markets, the new apple season is set to put half of Himachal Pradesh to hard work.

According to state horticulture director Gurdev Singh, early ripening varieties of apples have started reaching the markets, fetching the attention of agents across the country. He said that apple season is on and its demand is gradually rising as the new crop has arrived in the fruit markets. Usually apple season commences at the end of June and lasts till end of October in the state.

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Himachal apple prices crash due to oversupply

The prices of apples from Himachal Pradesh have crashed within weeks of their arrival in the markets due to oversupply and poor quality of the fruit, traders said here Sunday.

‘When the apple crop reached the wholesale market in the third week of June, the growers got a handsome price of Rs.800-900 for a 20-kg box of Tydeman’s Early Worcester. But within a week, the markets are flooded, leading to massive fall in the prices,’ Pratap Singh Chauhan, president of the marketing yard at the fruit and vegetable market in Bhattakuffar here, told IANS.

‘The prices came down to Rs.400 to Rs.450 a box. These days it is around Rs.350,’ he said.

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