Frozen and rotten honey tangerines: tens of millions of jin, and citrus farmers' hearts chilled in the harvest season

Original headline: A good harvest, yet over ten million jin of honey tangerines rot in the fields

In Xingtian Village, Jieshou Town, Xing'an County, Guangxi, a villager inspects honey tangerines rotting on the trees (photo taken January 24).

In a honey tangerine grove of several hundred mu in Xingtian Village, the reporter saw tangerines hanging all over the branches. But up close, the skin of many honey tangerines had already grown moldy, and rotten honey tangerines lay scattered everywhere on the ground. Hu Guangping, deputy director of the Xingtian Village Committee, did the math for the reporter: the whole village has 16,000 mu of honey tangerines; calculated at 3,000 kg per mu, total output reaches 48 million kg, of which one-fifth, the early-maturing varieties, were affected, estimated at around 9.6 million kg. A conservative estimate puts more than 5 million kg rotting in the fields, and many villagers have suffered heavy losses.

Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Lu Bo'an

This is honey tangerines rotting on the ground in Xingtian Village, Jieshou Town, Xing'an County, Guangxi (photo taken January 24).

In Xingtian Village, Jieshou Town, Xing'an County, Guangxi, a villager inspects rotten honey tangerines (photo taken January 24).