For fresh fruit and vegetable marketing and distribution in Asia

By Gabrielle Easter

Thursday 24th July 2014, 3:44 GMT hits ’s orange plantations

Typhoon Rammasun has struck citrus plantations in China�s south, as well as rice and cane crops

sian Citrus Holdings has said that The typhoon hit northern Vietnam and the While the damage from Typhoon A Typhoon Rammasun has caused as well as China last week, Rammasun is still being assessed, southern widespread damage to its orange resulting in an estimated 150 deaths. The China is bracing itself for Typhoon Matmo, plantations in southern China, reports strongest storm to hit China in four which hit earlier this week. Agrimoney. decades has caused heavy rainfall and flooding, causing an estimated US$1.7bn While the financial impacts of the typhoon worth of damage to China’s Hainan island are yet to be assessed, Asian Citrus said the alone, according to Agrimoney. damage done to its Hepu orange plantation in Guangxi is significant.

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