Noosa News
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.
Key points:
- Mango growers expect to produce 6.8 million trays this season, down from 10 million trays last season
- Producers across the north are reporting lower yields, with some farms down by 80 per cent
- Despite the smaller crop, prices for Australian consumers have increased only “a little bit”
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…
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