Sep 15, 2020
Fruit growers of Himachal Pradesh have realized that after years of growing apples in orchards, cultivating it is posing newer issues and creating more problems. Specialists attribute the trouble in apple growing to changes in climate conditions, pressuring growers to grow other plant crops like plums, peaches, and pomegranates.
Agri-Specialists states that environmental changes are affecting the creation of significant agrarian and agricultural yields in the Indian Himalayan Region. And this has become a constant misery among the cultivators.
The Royal Delicious assortment of apples generally require 800 to 1,200 chilling hours. But due to conditional warming, huge temperature increments in spring and moderate increments during the summer and winter seasons have brought down the local chilling hours.
An investigation directed by the College of Basic Sciences, Palampur, found that about 63% of the Banjar growers have changed to interchange harvests, for example, pear, kiwi, pomegranate, persimmon, cabbage, and different vegetables alongside the apple crop.
Fungal scab disease returns to HP after forty years damaging apple crop:
To add to the misery, apple farmers in Himachal Pradesh are facing the onslaught of the scab disease, which has hit the state after nearly four decades. This diseases is damaging this year’s crops and produce, giving fluctuation in prices on the higher side.