Srinagar, Jan. 1 -- The Hill States Horticulture Forum (HSHF) has expressed serious concerns over the potential impact of ongoing and proposed Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on India's apple sector, warning that tariff concessions on imports could destabilize hill-state horticulture economies. A high-level delegation, led by Harish Chouhan and including Maajid A. Wafai, Bashir Ahmad Naik, Izhan Javeed, Irshad A. Bhat, and Sunil Aggarwal, met Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to convey the concerns of apple growers from Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, and Uttarakhand.The delegation emphasized that apple cultivation sustains lakhs of families and supports allied sectors like labour, transport, cold storage, packaging, and ...