Guava yields in South Asia shrink due to unpredictable heat & rainfall

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Guava farmer Haralal Halder, in his 45 years of farming profession in coastal Bangladesh, had never experienced a drought-like spell with soaring temperatures during April-May period, the flowering season, until the past couple of years. In 2023 and this year, excessive heat caused the premature abscission of one-third of the blossoms in the trees of […]

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