In 2020, Anand Sankar of Tons Trails, a sustainable travel company in Uttarakhand, brought the region’s crunchy apples (Red Royal and the Golden varieties) to the rest of the country courtesy The Tons Valley Apple Shop. Done to ensure assured orders for the Uttarakhand’s apple farmers, and assist locals rendered unemployed due to the lockdown, he managed to sell about 25 tonnes of apples by the end of season in October.
This year, however, is a different story. Given how the monsoon is wreaking havoc in the Himalayan State, several farmers and their harvests have been affected by heavy rain and landslides.
