Pest-infested Iranian kiwis threaten Kashmiri apples
The Hindu
The valley’s apple dealers write to horticulture experts and the Ministry of Agriculture
The import of Iranian kiwis from Afghanistan to India has posed a major concern for apple dealers in Kashmir following a contagious quarantine pest threat found earlier this month in New Delhi.
Majid Aslam Wafai, president of the J&K Processing and Integrated Cold Chain Association (JK-PICCA), has written to Dr. Sarafarz Ahmad Wad, Director-Research of the Sher-i-Kashmir University of Science and Technology, to initiate analysis of samples of Iranian kiwis flooding the Kashmiri market and mixing with the locally harvested apples.
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