Having been raised in Himachal Pradesh, a rural tehsil located in the Shimla district, I have witnessed the remarkable evolution of agriculture in a relatively short period of time. The experience is heart-wrenching and exhilarating as I observe the momentous changes. As I embarked on my fieldwork journey and started with one of the populous apple-growing belts of the region, it was difficult to ignore what the agricultural landscape now looks like in Himachal