No juice in alphonso again, 50% price fall makes second wave worse for Maharashtra farmers
No juice in alphonso again, 50% price fall makes second wave worse for Maharashtra farmers Samyak Pandey © Provided by The Print New Delhi: Difficult times have befallen the royalty of the fruit kingdom. Maharashtra farmers cultivating the famed alphonso mangoes, one of the mainstays of the economy of the state’s Konkan region, have been left counting their losses as the second Covid wave exacerbates the impact of a series of knocks suffered since last year. These include the 2020 Covid lockdown, which came during the peak alphonso harvesting season, and the Cyclone Nisarg...
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