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Kuppam’s flowers now wilt by 8 a.m.: El Niño scorches Andhra’s flower basket, cuts output by 40%
AI EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Unseasonable and persistent heat driven by El Niño has severely impacted agricultural production in Andhra Pradesh's Kuppam flower-growing region. Flower yields have dropped by 40 percent, flowering is significantly delayed, and blooms are smaller, resulting in a dramatic decline in revenue for local farmers.
WHY IT MATTERS
The sharp drop in agricultural yield and revenue in a major flower-producing region highlights the immediate economic vulnerability of rural farming communities to climate phenomena like El Niño.
It is September and the heat that came in March has not left Kuppam’s flower belt; flowering is four weeks late, blooms are smaller and lighter, and a half-acre that fetched ₹58,000 last August brings ₹23,000 this year
This story was originally reported by The Hindu — National. As an automated real-time news aggregator, NewsToolBar provides multi-perspective indexing and AI summarization while directing full readership directly to primary publisher sources.
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