Shimla, Jan. 20 -- Farmers and orchardists from different parts of Himachal on Monday gherao the state secretariat and demanded immediate implementation of the Supreme Court's directions to frame a clear policy for regularisation and protection of farmers' land, and urging the state government to take up the issue of apple and other agricultural produce being kept out of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with the Union government. The farmers warned that if the state government failed to implement the SC's order and did not effectively take up their demands with the Centre, they would intensify their agitation and take the protest to Delhi in the coming days. CM Sukhu, last week, had held meetings with Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Union minister for commerce Piyush Goyal in New Delhi and urged for urgent intervention against the crippling influx of foreign apples. The protest was jointly organised by the Himachal Pradesh Kisan Sabha, the Himachal Pradesh Apple Growers' Association and several other farmers' and fruit growers' organisations. In the evening, a delegation of HP Seb Utpadak Sangh, led by former MLA Rakesh Singha called on CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu and presented a demand charter of apple growers and the CM assured them that their demands will be considered sympathetically.htc...