Pakistan, June 21 -- Plum growers in Peshawar are grappling with catastrophic losses after an unseasonal April heatwave ravaged orchards, decimating nearly 90% of the fruit crop.
The extreme temperatures, compounded by erratic rains and hailstorms, have left farmers in despair, with many forced to abandon their generational livelihood.
According to plum growers in the provincial metropolis, the loss to orchards was very heavy as around 90 percent of the fruit was damaged mostly due to unusual rise in temperature, erratic rains and hail storms. Orchard owners in plum growing belt of Peshawar, starting from Urmar area to Surezai area on Kohat road, informed APP that this year the losses were very heavy, leaving them in state of disappointme...