Poor harvest not seen in five decades

Taiwan News
Date: 2019/04/17
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

Lychee harvest likely to be cut by more than half amid climate change. (By Central News Agency)

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Taiwan will produce less than half the normal amount of lychees for the first time in almost 50 years because the past winter was not cold and wet enough, reports said Wednesday (April 17).

The Council of Agriculture (COA) said that only 20 percent of lychee and longan trees had blossomed, leading experts to expect that production of the fruits would be at least below half, almost five decades after this last happened, the Central News Agency reported.    [FULL  STORY]