2023
CII Excellence Award: Best FPO Market Linkage
National recognition for connecting growers directly with buyers.
Six seasons, measured
Membership, business, profit and prices for every financial year since the cooperative started trading.
Dashboard
Members
563
+88%since 2020-21
Aggregate turnover
₹193.03L
2020-21 to 2025-26
Net profit
₹16L+
Generated since inception
Dried apricot price
₹655/kg
+118%from ₹300
Members enrolled
Growers, by financial year
563318 men · 245 women
Business turnover
₹ lakh · year ending March
₹53.32 Lpeak, 2024-25
Net profit
₹ lakh, by financial year
₹6.93 Lbest year, 2022-23
Price after FPO intervention
₹ per kg
Dried apricotFresh apricot
Apricots marketed by the FPO
Metric tonnes, by financial year
Product-line share of business
% of turnover by business season
Source: Sham Valley Apricot Producer Cooperative, FPO review presentation, Leh, 16 April 2026.
Timeline
Season by season
What changed each year, and the numbers behind it.
Documentation & policy
Lifting a 1981 quarantine
In 1981 the then Jammu & Kashmir government barred fresh apricots and apples from leaving Ladakh. The order was SRO 397, issued under the J&K Plant and Disease Act, 1973.
The cooperative and its partners documented the case and made policy recommendations so Ladakh's fresh fruit could reach outside markets. That opened the way for the fresh apricot trade that now makes up most of the FPO's business.
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Recognition
Milestones
In the news
Fresh apricot exports and the Jullay Ladakh gift hamper
Union Minister Piyush Goyal acknowledged the fresh apricot exports.