With only one month left for the mango season to come to a close this year, a vast majority of the farmers in Chittoor district feel bogged down by the vagaries of nature, which stole away their happiness in the form of excess rainfall, soil drainage, heavy gales, Asani cyclone effect and scorching heat, between October 2021 and May 2022.
Officials and mango growers unanimously maintain that for the first time, a plethora of climatic disturbances had affected their plantations.
Chittoor district, with over two lakh hectares of mango orchards, continues to lead in producing the pulp variety of “Thothapuri” and half a dozen table varieties, predominantly Neelam, Alfonso, and Chandura. The horticulture officials say that had everything gone well, the total yield would have been more than eight lakh tonnes.
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