Asia's second largest soup earlier market is closed, fruit producers are loss of crores due to blockage

Updated: Mom, 15 Sep 2025 05:24 PM (IST) There was silence on Monday in Asia’s second largest fruitmandi in Sopore in the Baramulla district of Kashmir. Sopore Mandi remained closed due to the valley strike. The producers protested for fruits loaded by the fruit, demanding an uninterrupted route. Fayaz Ahmed Malik, president of Sopore Fruit Mandi, said that fruit of fruits on the highway is lost due to the loss of crores. Jagran correspondent, Srinagar. On Monday, there was an unusual silence in Asia’s second largest fruitmandi, Sopore in Sopore in the Baramulla district in North Kashmir. According to the Valley-wide two-day call to close all the Mandis across Kashmir, Sopore Mandi remained closed and the producers led a peaceful protest against the government of the government against the gardeners’ situation. Hundreds of producers, agents, traders and other stakeholders gathered at the gate of the market, carried posters and raised slogans that claimed an uninterrupted route for trucks stuck with fruit on the highway for a few days. The protests lasted about an hour. Remove ad just read the news. Also read this lack of gasoline in the valley as a result of the closure of the Srinagar-Jammu highway, long queues at petrol pumps, Divcom Garg made a statement, and the president of the fruit of the Mandi, Fayaz Ahmed Malik, said: “Millions of families depend on the home.” Nevertheless, our fruit trucks are stopped on the highway for no reason. We lose crores every day. If it continues, it will destroy the horticultural area of ​​Kashmir. Traders related to the fruit industry in the North Kashmir strongly criticized the silence of the government and local representatives on the ongoing blockade of the highway. He said thousands of Appelladen trucks have been stranded on the highway for the past ten days. Malik said, it is shameful that our chief minister Omar Abdullah and 60 MAs from Kashmir do not even suffer about the closure of the highway. If they cannot manage the economic lifeline of the valley at all, they must resign. Read-Cm Omar also challenged the central government, said: If the Srinagar-Jammu highway is not restored, and then handed it over, a fruit producer of Sopore, King Afzal said, we were spoiled quickly. A delay of every hour means heavy loss. It is estimated this season has a loss of more than 1,200 crores. The government sees that we are being destroyed without any concrete plan.