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Mango farmers watch profits go to supermarkets
19 Dec 2007
Mango prices are plummeting and growers are having trouble covering their production costs. While city supermarkets are charging up to $3.50 each, a 7 kilogram tray holding between 12 and 22 mangoes is only paying growers $8 to $10. Oversupply has been caused by the Northern Territory crop coming in late and overlapping with the fruit from Mareeba and Burdekin in northern Queensland. Ayr mango farmer John Morton said that they are sending supplies to cities below cost in the hope that people will get a taste for them and demand will increase. "But at the moment, a lot of mango farmers are being forced to consider their future. We get about 70 cents a mango, so when you see them being sold for $3.50, you wonder who's getting the money," he said.
The Australian, 19/12/2007
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