Bihar's famed Shahi litchi faces 70% crop loss due to climate change; Farmers struggle amid pest infestations and erratic weather
Patna: The air in Muzaffarpur’s villages should be carrying the sweet fragrance of ripening litchis by mid-May. Instead, many orchards this year smell.
Patna: The air in Muzaffarpur’s villages should be carrying the sweet fragrance of ripening litchis by mid-May. Instead, many orchards this year smell of damp earth and rot. For 35 years, Krishna Murari Singh has tended his four-acre ancestral orchar... [8139 chars]