Mustang apples have rich color and full flavor

Although it is 'Hidensity Hybrid', slow ripening Fuji, Jonaprince, Golden Delacious and local Golden, Royal, Red Delicious, Richard and Fuji apples will be sent to the market only after the onset of October, according to the Prime Minister's Agriculture Modernization Project Implementation Unit 'Apple Zone Office' Mustang.

District Coordinating Committee Mustang in conjunction with the village council, agricultural knowledge center, Marfa Baghbani, Apple Zone Mustang and leading farmers decided to send the market only after October 1. Prime Minister's Agriculture Modernization Project Implementation Unit Head Netra Prasad Bhatt said, 'The local apples are still not enough. We are waiting until October because the seeds are not fully colored and the seeds are green.'' According to agricultural experts, the real taste of Mustang apples is October. Apples picked after October 15th begin to have a sweet taste.

In order to maintain the quality of Mustang's apple brand, the relevant authorities have decided not to harvest and send the apples to the market, but now the market has started to find apples that are not ripe, soft and chewy when bitten. Anil Hirachan, a farmer of Marfa, said that he sent apples to the market from August 18, saying that the apples had become rotten. According to John Mustang, the price of high density hybrid apple is 180 to 200 rupees per kg and the price of other apples is 120 to 30 rupees.

Apples have started to ripen in Mustang. We have started sending the apples to the market because they have reached the desired sweetness,' said Karma Gurung of Simle Achards Pvt. Ltd., the largest private apple orchard in Mustang.

As the farmers of Mustang have decided to pick apples, traders have started reaching the farmer's orchards. In Mustang, it is customary for the merchant to go to the orchard and take the contract based on the estimation of the apple tree. According to Krishi Gyan Kendra, Mustang, the price of apples varies according to geography, quality and time as the market is open to price determination. According to the Apple Zone Unit Office Mustang, the Prime Minister's Agriculture Modernization Project will cultivate apples on an area of ​​891 hectares in Mustang. Last year, 4,975 tons of apple trees were produced in an area of ​​615 hectares.

Among the apple farms, 5 varieties of apples are being cultivated in 60 plantation areas based on high density. Mustang has a productivity of 12.5 tonnes per hectare. Apple Zone Mustang estimates that apple production in Mustang will increase by up to 35 percent this year.

As the basic sweetness of apples has arrived, farmers have started picking apples and sending them to the market. The wholesale price of apples has not been set because the farmers bargain with the traders themselves and give the contract to the traders,' said Rupa Vick, Deputy Technical Assistant of Apple John Mustang, 'Temperate Horticulture Development Center Marfa is in the process of setting the price of apples.' 30 tons of apples are produced. Apart from apple seeds produced in the orchard, the center also produces and sells alcohol. According to the center, the horticulture center has been selling apple brandy at 2,000 per liter, cider at 300 per liter and Arubakhada wine at 400 per liter.