Srinagar, Sept. 20 -- Over 5,500 fruit-laden trucks have crossed the Srinagar-Jammu national highway and Mughal road for the past two days, thus easing the crisis of thousands of valley's farmers many of whose fruits spoiled in the trucks as they were stranded on the national highway for the past few weeks owing to its closure due to continuous rains and landslides.

The restoration work of the 270-km NH was sped up after chief minister Omar Abdullah and Union minister Nitin Gadkari held a meeting on September 16 for the its immediate opening, which had mostly remained closed for heavy traffic for the previous three-four weeks as a portion of highway was damaged due to rain-induced massive landslide in Udhampur.

Kashmir divisional commis...