India’s North East possesses those attributes that make it ideal for temperate fruit cultivation. Fruits namely apple, pear, plum, peach are grown semi commercially in the NE-Hill states particularly in Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Nagaland, and Meghalaya.
Nowadays kiwi fruit, walnut, and strawberry cultivation are also extended to new areas with advanced farming techniques. Kiwis have caught the imagination of producers in Arunachal Pradesh, where not only productivity is good, but also the quality of the product is reported to compare favourably with Australian kiwi fruits that are in good or in Thrust Areas in Apple Production demand in the international market.
Although the kiwi is a recent introduction in the state, it has assumed tremendous popularity and preference among the growers as well as consumers due to its favourable properties for easy maintenance and marketing besides having high nutritional and medicinal values.
The organic certification to the Kiwi fruit grown from Arunachal Pradesh's Ziro Valley was given in the month of October 2020 by the Mission Organic Value Chain Development for the North-East. Today, the kiwis of this region are the only certified organic fruit of their kind in the country.
Source: sentinelassam.com
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