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Foreign Imports of Walnuts Bring Trouble To Kashmir's Walnut Industry

PULWOM- INDIAN CONTROLLED KASHMIR-INDIA -SEPTEMBER 16: A Kashmiri worker dries walnuts after cleaning on, September 16, 2015 in Pulwom, 40 km (24 miles) south of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian controlled Kashmir, India. The dry fruit business of walnut in Kashmir is facing immense challenge after India has allowed its imports from other countries . This has squeezed the domestic market of Kashmir walnuts across India with growers saying that the crop is getting low returns from this crop. Kashmir produces 90 percent of the total walnut in India and they have been immensely popular across India as the products is organic. However with imports growers say that there is no demand for their product. Walnuts harvesting is highly labor intensive and almost all the processing is carried manually. The workers involved in the initial harvesting say that with low returns on this product has also dwindled their wages too. In Kashmir, walnut trees are abundantly grown in Kupwara and Shopian region. Previously Shopian was the largest walnut growing region in Kashmir and but now Kupwara has overtaken Shopian and acclaimed as the largest Walnut producing area. (Photo by Yawar Nazir/ NurPhoto) (Photo by Yawar Nazir/NurPhoto)

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