Write a story of apple ,saffron,rice from cultivation to retail market
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Kashmir is known for its delicious apples. Apple cultivation is the mainstay of Kashmir’s economy (along with tourism and handicrafts) with revenue of Rs.1,200 crore a year, according to the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India.
But if one refers to Sir Walter Roper Lawrence’s book, The Valley of Kashmir(1895), there is no mention of apples. Lawrence served in the Indian Civil Service and was the settlement commissioner of Kashmir at the time. Lawrence writes: “In every way the most important staple in Kashmir is rice and the cultivator denotes all his energy to this crop.” There is no mention of the apple in his list of altitudinal and spring crops of Kashmir valley, which included wheat, barley, opium, mustard, flax, pea, beans, maize, rice, cotton, saffron, tobacco, hop, millet, buckwheat, amaranth, pulses and sesame.