Price crash and fungal infection force growers to dump quintals of mangoes on highway
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Last Updated: Jun 27, 2021, 04:04 PM IST
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Karnataka State Mango Development and Marketing Corporation Limited chairman K V Nagaraju said most of the crop destroyed this time is Totapuri variety though other crops suffered minimum losses.
There was unexpected rain and hailstorm in the district causing severe damage to the crops.
Mango growers in Karnataka s Kolar district have dumped many quintals of mangoes following the Anthracnose fungal infection and crash in mango prices, a farmer leader said. Mango growers are in distress in the district due to terrible losses. With no aid coming from the government, farmers have dumped loads of mangoes by the roadside in some parts of Srinivasapura in the district, Kolar District Mango Growers and Marketing Association president Neelaturu Chinnappa Reddy told P T I.
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February rains and mist have turned threat for the mango crop in state this year.
HUBBALLI: Unseasonal showers could not have been more ill-timed this year: The rainfall that the state received in February has extracted a steep price in the form of a drastic reduction in the yield of the mango crop. The horticulture department had expected a yield of 14 tonnes across the state, but the unseasonal showers forced the officials to revise the estimate to nine lakh tonnes. The reduction in the yield is likely to leave a huge gap in the supply chain, pushing the price of the quintessential tropical fruit up this summer.