Explainer: How Kashmir has eaten into Himachal's apple pie
For generations, Himachal Pradesh has set the pace for the early apple season in northern India’s wholesale mandis. In the later summer months and into autumn, cartons bearing the names of Kotkhai, Jubbal, Rohru and Kotgarh from Shimla district’s top apple belts would arrive at sales hubs from Shimla to Parwanoo to Azadpur in Delhi, fetching premium prices when supplies were scarce and demand was high. But not this year.
