Every single part of a cherry goes through a proper scanning before it can make it to the box and, finally, to the market.
After a couple of years of bad harvests, the Kashmiri cherry looks set for a bumper crop this year. The state accounts for a significant part of the Indian cherry production, but cherry growers faced losses in the last two years due to unseasonal changes in the weather.
In fact, it has been reported that cherry sales this year have seen some fall in prices with reports of the price of some varieties declining by as much as 60 percent from last year's prices. While the season generates much employment, attracting labourers from other districts, from the growers' perspective, labour costs can also be crippling with almost all the work needing to be done by hand.