The Director General of Foreign Trade's September 2015 a notification, wherein import of fresh apples was restricted only through Nava Sheva Port in Maharashtra, created lots of problems for fruit merchants all over India, particularly apple merchants, ICCI president D Nandakumar said.
He and ICCI Secretary Rajesh B Lund, along with a member of Coimbatore Fruit Merchants' Association had met Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Nirmala Sitharaman when she was here in October last and given a representation on it,
Import of Apples is also allowed through India's land borders,which would help increase availability of the fruit in the domestic market and ease its prices, Nandakumar said in a release here.