Srinagar, Sept. 23 -- Nearly 1.37 lakh metric tonnes (LMT) of fruit has been transported to various mandis (market) across the country from Kashmir in the past 10 days, divisional commissioner Anshul Garg said on Monday. This includes transportation of 6,500 metric tonnes via railway cargo service that began earlier this month. The daily transportation of fruit via trucks across the country has stabilised now, easing the panicky situation that had left the growers and traders worried for the past few days. Garg said the traffic movement on the national highway has improved and 4,000 trucks are moving daily. "In the last 10 days, 1.37 lakh metric tonnes of fruit has been dispatched via National Highway 44, Mughal road and parcel train service," he said, adding that the highway restoration has been going on and the frequency of truck movement has been increased," he said. On Sunday, senior PDP leader and legislator Waheed ur Rehman Parra had alleged that apple transportation was being deliberately delayed to cripple the J&K economy. Garg, on the other hand, said the recently introduced train parcel service was taking 800 to 1,000 tonnes of fruit on a daily basis. "Now, loading of fruit is also taking place in Anantnag and Baramulla," he said. Railway spokesman Raghavendra Singh said that the Northern Railway on Monday supplied 21 container-based wagons to ferry apples from Kashmir, marking another initiative to support the apple industry. More than 6,400 tonnes of apples have been transported from Kashmir to Delhi in the last week, using both bogie covered wagons (BCN) and parcel coaches from the Anantnag Goods Shed Terminal in the Kashmir Valley, he said. "A total of 21 wagons were supplied at Bari Brahmana for loading the same. Each wagon accommodated almost 76 such containers weighing 40kg each. In another first the puff panels - insulated steel panels- were also unloaded at Anantnag," he added....