Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Hailstorm Affects 60% of Mango Production

In addition to the roofs it damaged in the rural and urban areas, Sunday's severe hail and thunderstorm uprooted various mango trees in the region of Veracruz and affected 60 percent of the mango production.

Mango producers in the municipality of Tierra Blanca, who were waiting for the harvest to sell their product or their orchards, were seriously affected by the hailstorm.

60 percent of the fruit fell to the ground and is now useless.

Producer Faustino Romero, who has a large orchard, explained: "We were waiting one or two weeks to make the first cut, but this storm . . .

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