Uttarakhand news: The Values of Nainital attract millions of tourists every year, sometimes with the calm waves of lakes and sometimes with the greenery of the high cedars. But this time the fragrance which has dissolved in the winds of Nainital is not a story of any old tales, but a new taste. For the first time, Nainital has come into discussion for its lakes and mountains as well as apples. And these are not a common apple, but the attractive ‘Red Chief’ and ‘Red Golden’ apples of the foreign breed, whose sweetness is inhabited in the entire Nainital fans these days. These beautiful apples are being cultivated in the private garden of the famous Sherwani Hilltop Hotel in Nainital. These red-red apples blossomed in the hotel garden have now filled a new color of tourism. Tourists from far and wide, where they used to take pictures on the banks of Nainital’s lakes, now they stop near the trees of these apples, take pictures and taste these foreign fruits. Everyone is surprised that such beautiful and sweet apples can be grown on the land of Nainital.
Sweet fruit of 12 years of hard work
Siddharth Sharma, general manager of the hotel, says that these apples started 12 years ago, when he ordered these foreign varieties of plants from Chaubatia Garden of Ranikhet. At that time no one had thought that this hill land of Nainital would give birth to such beautiful apples. Siddharth explains that its purpose was not just to grow fruit, but to connect tourism with local agriculture so that the people coming do not take the experience of staying in only one hotel, but also connect with nature and know the local products closely. Red Chief and Red Golden Apples are especially known for their tone and sweetness. Even though these apples are light in view, the sweetness in their taste can compete with any foreign fruit. This is the reason that trees laden with these apples are now on social media. The guests staying in the hotel are so attracted by seeing them that the photoshoot has become a new trend of this trip.
New model of Agri-tourism in Nainital
This initiative of the hotel administration is not limited to its guests only. He believes that such experiments in a hill station like Nainital are also a ray of hope for the local people. The climate and soil here is proving suitable for the cultivation of foreign fruits. If local farmers also adopt this model, then they can get more profits than traditional farming. Apart from apples, mountainous fruits like plum, peach and khumani are also being grown in this garden. The colorful flowers in the middle of the garden make this entire view even more romantic. Sherwani Hiltop Hotel has now become a place, but a place where people can feel natural beauty, local taste and unique confluence of gardening.
The beginning of changing the identity of Nainital
Nainital is no longer a city of lakes and era, but is becoming the new face of Agri-Turism. This new initiative has proved that not only beauty, sweetness is also hidden in the land of Uttarakhand. It may be that people should not only talk about Naini Lake or Snow View as soon as you hear the name of Nainital in the coming years, but say – “Where the Red Chief and Red Golden apples bloom.” This fragrant change has started, now it remains to be seen when the rest of Nainital join the story of this sweetness.
