₹1, 000 but now due to the rain, it is ₹2,000-3,500, the shop owner added. Besides, due to the bad conditions of highways, farmers are packing the fruits in the same trucks, leading to quick rotting. Mohammad Imran, the owner of a fruit shop in Azadpur Mandi said the existing supply of apples is over.
The fresh supply is not been done because of landslide. "We have informed the Himachal suppliers. They had tried to deliver too but they had to return midway.
The fruits had gotten rotten," he said. Himachal Pradesh has already received 742 mm of rainfall in 54 days of monsoon this year. The rainfall recorded in the state this July broke all records for the month in the last 50 years, Shimla Meteorological Centre Director Surinder Paul said.
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