Half the dussehri mango crop in UP damaged by consecutive hailstorms

With barely 10 days to go for the variety to hit market, traders expect prices to skyrocket; exports, especially to US and Europe, to be impacted

Bad weather in the last leg of winter and three consecutive hailstorms have destroyed mango crop in the fruit belt of Uttar Pradesh this year. With barely 10 days to go for dussehri to hit market, the traders expect price to skyrocket. 

According to them, almost 50-60 per cent of the mango crop has been damaged in UP this season due to adverse weather conditions. In Malihabad, Kakori and Rahimabad areas of Lucknow district, known for the production of dussehri mango in UP, the mango growers have been expecting little business in export this year.

Shabihul Hasan of Nafees Nursury