Srinagar, Feb. 28 -- Demanding the scrapping of the India-US trade agreement, the Apple Farmers' Federation of India (AFFI) will hold a protest outside the Parliament next month.

The AFFI said it will mobilise apple growers and farmers from Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand for this protest.

The AFFI also termed the India-US trade agreement as total annihilation as import tariffs of Washington apples has been reduced from 50 percent cent to nil under the India-US interim bilateral trade agreement.

"This trade agreement, which is clearly an unequal treaty, is a major surrendering of India's economic interests by PM Narendra Modi and will prove a death knell for apples domestically produced in the country," convener AFFI ...