Chittoor’s mango economy in crisis amid poor yields and West Asia tensions

The mango system successful Chittoor district, 1 of the country’s largest pulp manufacturers, is reportedly heading for a large situation this season, with lone a period near for the procurement of stocks from farmers.

The stakeholders support that this year, the yields are apt to beryllium astir 40% from the acreage of astir 1 lakh hectares, coupled with the improvement of aboriginal flowering and aboriginal summer. Above all, the ongoing West Asia situation has played a detrimental role, arsenic the pulp manufacture remains tight-lipped astir caller procurement of stocks, claiming that “the destiny of the already shipped pulp stocks stranded successful the Gulf remains uncertain.”