First shipment of Japanese apples reaches India; after a wait of 10 years


Finally, after the decade-long marathon negotiations between Indian and Japanese government went through successfully, the eye-catching light reddish/green and big-sized Japanese apples have arrived in India.
A trial shipment of apples from Aomori – the northernmost prefecture (state) of Japan, the mecca of apple growers, reached New Delhi recently.
This news holds significance as India that is one of the major consumers of apple in the world largely depends upon apple imports from the USA after the Indian government banned apples from China sometime back. Earlier USA and China together would meet about 80% of the apple demand in India that imports more than 22 times the apples it produces. Read more...

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