Agriculture is the mainstay for the populace of Kashmir Valley and hence forms the backbone of its economy. With the diversification of agricultural crops towards the high-value cash crops of horticulture, it thus becomes imperative to study the relationship between the altitude and the productivity of Apple and rice in the Kashmir Himalayas. The current study is mostly based on secondary sources of data collected from some government and non-government agencies.  In the course of this study, it has been discovered that the apple growing conditions in this region have consistently expanded to encompass lower altitudes and valley floors, which prove to be more favourable for paddy cultivation due to their geographical and agricultural conditions. Districts situated at higher altitudes such as Shopian and Kulgam exhibit the highest levels of productivity in apple cultivation, while simultaneously displaying the lowest levels of productivity in paddy cultivation. The majority of the farmers in the research area make their living from horticulture and paddy cultivation thus, there is a great deal of potential for analysing the regional changes in productivity with varying altitudes. The results were obtained by applying the correlation method to ascertain the district-wise differences in apple and paddy productivity, with varying elevations. According to the findings, there is a substantial positive association between apple productivity and altitude in high altitude districts and a large negative correlation between altitude and low altitude districts.