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How Zimbabwe farmers deal with mango glut in the middle of a pandemic

Fortune Mugariri, 24, a worker in a mango processing plant in Gokwe Centre, Zimbabwe, holds some of the plant’s produce, January 25, 2021. [Thomson Reuters Foundation]

Before agronomist Peter Sena retired, he planted a variety of mango trees on his rural homestead in Zimbabwe's Midlands province, aiming to ensure an ongoing income for his family.

This year, an unusually wet rainy season combined with coronavirus restrictions that closed down most of the markets in the country threatened to leave him with a bumper mango harvest - and nobody to sell it to.

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