Apple Procurement By Nafed Would Be A Game Changer

Downplaying media charges of insignificant procurement of Kashmiri apples by Nafed, one of the top officials of the agricultural co-operative rubbished them as reports without foundation in facts.

“It is the first time that institutional procurement of apples has been attempted in J&K and the development augurs well for the future of apple growers”, said the official who did not wish to be quoted.

The system has recently been put in place and it takes time for a system to get fully critical, he said adding that Nafed had been at work only for the last 20 days in Jammu & Kashmir. He also said that the apple harvesting has begun only a fortnight ago. “We are hopeful of large-scale procurement in the days to come”, he stated.

It bears recall that one of the media outlets wrote that while more than half of the apple harvesting season is over, the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED) has been able to procure less than 1 percent of the total production in Jammu and Kashmir.

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