At a press conference in front of the Government Palace, the peasant leader said that winds, which ranged from 95 to 120 miles per hour, passed through the fields on the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th, and consequently brought down the fruit of the Tommy and Ataulfo varieties.
"Before we harvested two thousand boxes per hectare, now with this mess we will not reach 200," he said. He explained that the mango that was cut down by the wind can not be marketed in the U.S., Canada, Japan and other countries because they did not reach the required maturity.
"It's a shame to see it, thousands of mangoes, some green, and others that were to be harvested in two weeks, laying on the ground," he said.
