Zimbabwe: Mango farmers tackle an invasive fruit fly pest
신선 망고
짐바브웨
게시됨 2021년 2월 24일
Tridge 요약
As the climate warms, a destructive pest is spreading its wings and damaging the livelihoods of fruit growers in southern Africa. The invasive fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis, is preventing farmers like Susan Zinoro, a mango farmer from Mutoko, Zimbabwe, from literally and figuratively enjoying the fruits of their labour.
원본 콘텐츠
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Feb 23 2021 (IPS) - Every harvest season, Susan Zinoro, a mango farmer from Mutoko, Zimbabwe, buries half the mangoes she’s grown that season. They have already started rotting either on the tree or have fallen to the ground before harvest. It’s a difficult task for Zinoro because she knows she is throwing away food and income meant for her family. But this has been happening for the last seven years, when she first began to notice that more and more fruit would rot and litter the ground. Zinoro from Zinoro village in Mutoko, 143km north-east of Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital, has earned an average $400 per season from selling mangoes over the last five years. This is a shift from many years ago when she would earn more than $1,000 a season. Related IPS Articles 60 Days on, India’s Biggest Farmers’ Protest Shows No Sign of Weakening Can Agricultural Apps Bring Indonesia’s Farmers Back to the Fields? Dengue—an Epidemic Within a Pandemic in Peru Another farmer, ...