Indian heatwave exposes a cooling challenge for fresh food

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NEW DELHI, June 27 — The withering heatwave hitting northern India has dealt a double blow to market fruit and vegetable sellers - more of their produce is spoilt, while buyers...

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Sahil buys vegetables every day from a nearby wholesale market, but much of the produce is already in a bad shape. Mohammed Akhlaq, trying to keep his coconuts out of the sun at a market near Delhi, said business had never been so bad.He said he had lost between 30 per cent and 40 per cent of his produce to the heat in the last two months. Coupled with customers staying indoors and ordering online, Akhlaq also said his income had halved.

Extreme heat compounds the problem in two ways, said Aditi Mukherji, director of Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Impact Action Platform of CGIAR, a global partnership of international organisations researching food security. The impact is felt particularly by the roughly 5 million small vendors and hawkers in India who are mostly unable to keep produce cool and have to work in the extreme heat.

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