 Apple's worth repeats 2400 crore on the Kashmir Valley around the brink of losing their market with traders claiming that cheaper Iranian apples have flooded the Indian markets leading to a sharp decline in demand and prices of high-quality Kashmiri apples. Iranian apples first arrived last year following which the fruit associations and growers protested. Stop it! Stop it! We want to stop it! Save it! Save it! Go to the fruit industry! Worth over 8000 crore Kashmir's Apple industry is considered the backbone of the region's economy with over 30 lakh people directly or indirectly involved in the business. The fruit industry has been in the state for the past 5-6 years. Due to this, the growers had to face a lot of losses. This year, in 2021, the apple was at least less than this year but it was clean. There was no scapegoat or anything. But today, two months ago, the Iran and Apple, with our tax in India, we had to face a lot of losses. Because sanctions have been imposed on Iran. They cannot go to any other country. So, they have to go to India. All the countries in India are coming from Iran. They are coming here illegally. They don't have any custom duties. They don't have any tax on them. Due to this, the value of this fruit is coming in the crates. There are about 10 kgs of apples in each crate. So, from 0.5 to 0.6, it is sold in the markets here. Due to this, if we look here, it has a very bad effect on us. This is our Kashmir tax. It has a very bad effect on us. This is the apple industry. This is the backbone of the people of Kashmir. The economy is running here. Due to the situation, this industry has taken a lot of risks. But now, on this very hope, I feel that the system here was running. About a month ago, in Balakkanti, in these countries, the demand for Kashmiri apples began. Due to this, the demand for Kashmiri apples has ended. And almost 50% of the rates have been down. Due to this, the fruit industry is currently facing a lot of losses. If God forbid, this system keeps running, then we are also facing a lot of risk changes. Look here, there is not just one person involved. There is a grower, a dealer here. And the small ones involved, the owners of small gardens, they also do business on this hope in this trade so that they can have some way to spend their lives. But this industry is being snatched away from them. So tell me, what happened? Here, you see, our U.T. domain, Kashmir, 70-80% of our Kashmir economy depends on this fruit industry. Kashmir's apple is running continuously for about 12-13 months. Around the year, the production here is very high. Approximately 70% of the people in the Kashmir state rely on this fruit industry. More than 150 boxes of apple peaties, which we call peaties, are lying within our valley. This is just a cold store. If you look at the other supporters here, then the situation is getting worse. And the situation is getting worse and the people who are coming back from this trade feel that they will be ready to commit suicide. Apple farmers in Kashmir are demanding that the Government of India should bade Iranian apples from entering the country's market or at least increase import duties so that there is some respite for domestic apple producers. We had written the Government of India a month ago. The Union Agriculture Minister. They haven't done any work on it yet. After that, our U.T. Government, Mr. Alji, our Chief Secretary, our Advisor, our Prune Secretary of Agriculture, wrote to him. In fact, we also appealed to the Prime Minister that if the Iranian apple will continue to come into the market in 2009, then our own industry, the culture of Kashmir, and not just the talks of Kashmir, but of Himachal and Uttarakhand, will have bad effects on it. The arrival of Iran through Waga or Afghanistan, this is absolutely unlawfully and illegally coming here. If this exercise, this custom duty, if it will increase, then we will benefit a lot from it. Because the rate of this will also increase and the customers who buy from India, they will also get this expensive, they get Rs. 55 per kilo, so if it will get access to duty, then automatically they will get around Rs. 85-90. So from that account, we have our own sector, we will get a little boost from it. The marketing will be done in the right way. The Prime Minister also has an advertisement, that Saudi Arabia. So first we have to see our people, that this trade, the apple trade, we have enough stock and we have the apple in this amount, that we can reach every part of the country, but subject to the market. So that is why I request the Prime Minister, especially from the authorities, to pay attention to this issue and the crisis, the loss of Kashmir or Himachal Pradesh and the growth of fruit dealers, the Prime Minister, should pay attention to this. It should be done by our government so that the apple market will remain the same. If the government has the idea that we should wear the same clothes, that we should eat fruits, that we should use other things, then we should have two other things. Now this request is, either ban or 100% custom duty so that the goods in the store and the goods in the warehouse are at the right rate.