Jammu & Kashmir: Economy

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Fruit exports

2015, 2016

Surge in fruit exports from Valley, 15/Oct/2016 by Daily Excelsior

Horticulture sector contributes around Rs 5000 crore to the State’s economy annually and it is the core sector of J&K’s agriculture economy with about 4.5 lakh families engaged in it. Around 20 per cent area of the State is under horticultural crops.

Apple Among the horticultural crops in the State apple occupies the predominant position constituting around 45 percent of the total area under fruit crops.

Exports in 2015 / September: In 2015only 66259 MTs of fruit in 7291 truckloads went out of the Valley during the month of September

Exports in 2016/ Apr- Sept: There has been a massive increase in fruit exports from the Kashmir valley during the current season with the cumulative exports touching a whopping 300366 MTs between April 2016 and September 2016 against only 124990 MTs during the corresponding period of the last year.

Exports in 2016 / September: According to the data released by the Department of Horticulture (Planning and Marketing), a substantial swell in fruit exports from the Valley was witnessed during the month of September 2016 with 22117 truckloads crossing Lower Munda Toll Post between September 1, 2016 and September 30, 2016 carrying 249996 MTs of fresh and dry fruit.

Fresh fruit exports/ 2015: exports of fresh fruit during this period were just 122987 MTS with 14232 truckloads moving out of the Valley.

Fresh fruit exports/ 2016: 296789 MTs of fresh fruit have been dispatched out of the Valley between April 2016 and September 2016 in 26940 truckloads

Dry fruit exports/ 2015: 2003 MTs of dry fruit were exported in 426 truckloads during this period.

Dry fruit exports/ 2016: the exports of dry fruit have also witnessed manifold increase with 3577 MTs being exported from the Valley in 643 truckloads between April 2016 and September 2016

The volume of the fresh fruit that has been dispatched outside the Valley during September 2016 is 248571 MTs in 21866 truckloads while 1425 MTs of dry fruit in 251 truckloads has been dispatched during last month.

In 2015 only 65734 MTs of fresh fruit in 7192 truckloads had moved outside the Valley during the month of September while the volume of dry fruit exports during this period was 525 MTs involving 99 truckloads.