Srinagar, Feb. 28 -- Demanding the scrapping of the India-US trade agreement, the Apple Farmers' Federation of India (AFFI) will hold a protest outside the Parliament next month. The AFFI said it will mobilise apple growers and farmers from Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand for this protest. The AFFI also termed the India-US trade agreement as total annihilation as import tariffs of Washington apples has been reduced from 50 percent cent to nil under the India-US interim bilateral trade agreement. "This trade agreement, which is clearly an unequal treaty, is a major surrendering of India's economic interests by PM Narendra Modi and will prove a death knell for apples domestically produced in the country," convener AFFI and legislator Mohammad Yusuf Tarigami said, adding that to protest this move, the AFFI will mobilise apple farmers from Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand and hold a demonstration outside the Parliament in March 2026. "Allowing American apples with minimal import tariffs does not just bring another competitor to the domestic fruit market." he added. htc...