Mango yields down across Australia this season as crops battered by heat and wind

After three consecutive years of producing more than 10 million trays, Australia’s mango industry yields have crashed during the 2020–21 season.

The national crop forecast is now sitting at below 7 million trays and could fall further, with heavy rain in some Queensland regions this week causing more challenges for growers.

So what went wrong?

The lack of workers to pick crops has been well publicised over the past few months and while the labour…