Mango crop damaged

Remember how in the previous post I said it was mango season -  I just had one of the best I have had in years - well, it may be a short-lived mango savoring season.

from Fresh Plaza

Strong winds caused severe losses to some 18,000 hectares of mango for export from the  municipalities of Chahuites, Santo Domingo Zanatepec, San Pedro Tapanatepec, Ixthuatán and Reforma de Pineda, Isthmus region of Tehuantepec, said a concerned producer representative, Julius Caesar Urbieta Salinas, reported the Jornada en Linea.

At a press conference in front of the Government Palace, the peasant leader said that winds, which ranged from 95 to 120 miles per hour, passed through the fields on the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th, and consequently brought down the fruit of the Tommy and Ataulfo varieties​​.

 

 "Before we harvested two thousand boxes per hectare, now with this mess we will not reach 200," he said. He explained that the mango that was cut down by the wind can not be marketed in the U.S., Canada, Japan and other countries because they did not reach the required maturity.

"It's a shame to see it, thousands of mangoes, some green, and others that were to be harvested in two weeks, laying on the ground," he said.

 These are the same strong winds that brought down the guelaguetza auditorium roof.