{"id":525122,"date":"2022-09-27T11:15:28","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T05:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=525122"},"modified":"2022-09-27T11:15:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T05:45:28","slug":"truckloads-of-apples-start-to-rot-as-blocked-kashmir-highway-halts-deliveries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/truckloads-of-apples-start-to-rot-as-blocked-kashmir-highway-halts-deliveries\/","title":{"rendered":"Truckloads of apples start to rot as blocked Kashmir highway halts deliveries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SRINAGAR: Roadworks have halted thousands of trucks carrying millions of dollars worth of apples on Kashmir&#8217;s main highway, a major union leader said on Monday, triggering protests by growers as their produce begins to rot.<\/p>\n<p>Highway repairs were causing massive delays along the highway that connects the Kashmir valley to the rest of India, meaning huge expected losses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have 8,000 trucks carrying apples worth Rs 100 crore stranded on the highway for the last two weeks,&#8221; Bashir Ahmad Basheer, the head of the Kashmir Valley Fruit Growers and Dealers Union, told Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SRINAGAR: Roadworks have halted thousands of trucks carrying millions of dollars worth of apples on Kashmir&#8217;s main highway, a major union leader said on Monday, triggering protests by growers as their produce begins to rot. Highway repairs were causing massive delays along the highway that connects the Kashmir valley to the rest of India, meaning huge expected losses. &#8220;We have 8,000 trucks carrying apples worth Rs 100 crore stranded on the highway for the last two weeks,&#8221; Bashir Ahmad Basheer, the head of the Kashmir Valley Fruit Growers and Dealers Union, told Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,221,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}