📄 Abstract
Apple cultivation is the mainstay of around three lakh families in the small hill state of Himachal Pradesh (India). After liberalized trade regime of WTO agreement, marketing of state's apple produce is facing competition from the imported apple especially from Turkey accounted for 27.25 per cent of import volumes of India, followed by Iran (17.09%), Poland (9.92%), Italy (9.85%), and Afghanistan (9.05). Apple producers of Himachal had been raising a strong voice against the rising imports of apple with a strong demand for raising import duty which is already at the highest admissible level under WTO regime. Import of varieties of apple provide better choice and competitive price to consumers but pose a tough challenge to domestic producers especially located in the mountainous regions of the country having limited alternatives to livelihood options. In this background, this paper tries to analyze the change in area under apple crop, production and its domestic and international trade over the years.
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📚 How to Cite:
Rakesh Kumar Sharma , ISSUES RELATED TO PRODUCTION AND TRADE OF INDIAN APPLES FROM HIMACHAL ECONOMY PERSPECTIVE , Volume 14 , Issue 6, June 2026, EPRA International Journal of Agriculture and Rural Economic Research (ARER) , Pages: 1 - 6 ,