Fruit in crisis: Florida’s orange groves buffeted by hurricane, disease ...Middle East

ARCADIA: Vernon Hollingsworth grew up in Florida among his family’s orange trees, recently ravaged by a double whammy of disease and a hurricane that have sent juice prices spiraling and left farmers blinking in disbelief.On a recent March morning, the fifth-generation farmer drove a pickup truck through the rows in his grove, pointing out the damage from Hurricane Ian last fall such as uprooted trees.“I lost 95 to 97 percent of my crop,“ the 62-year-old told AFP, adding “we’re going to have to rebuild, and we need help to do that.”But the hurricane is only the latest blow.In Florida, the world’s second largest producer of orange juice after Brazil, groves have been suffering from a citrus t

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