CHANTHABURI, Thailand – Clambering hand-over-hand, sweat dripping into his eyes, a durian labourer expertly slices a cumbersome fruit from a tree before tossing it down to land with a soft thump in his colleague’s waiting arms some 15m below.
Durian season usually lasts from March until June, but the soaring temperatures – which in her province have hovered around 40 deg C for weeks – and subsequent drought have shortened the harvest. “We have to buy 10 water trucks for 120,000 litres of water for one-time watering the whole 10-rai of our farm,” she said, repeating the process every other day, at a cost of thousands of dollars.Thailand’s durian exports are worth billions and are the kingdom’s third most valuable agricultural product – behind rice and rubber.
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