Abstract
Some characteristics such as educational level, total land holding, orchard size and annual income of apple growers in Quetta district were explored. Types of apple varieties grown by them were also investigated through personal interview with 120 randomly selected apple growers. About half of them were small farmers (having farm size of less than 5 ha). Most of the apple growers had orchard area less than 4 ha. There were only 39% of the apple growers who reported that their annual income from all the sources was less than 50 thousand rupees. The most commonly grown apple varieties included Amri, Tor K1u, Shin K1u, Kashmiri and Mashhadi.
