In India’s western state of Maharashtra, mango farmer Komal Walke is scrambling to meet orders from India’s online grocers after her family’s three acres of orchards produced almost no Alphonso mangoes this year.
Walke, a 26-year-old horticulturist in the coastal town of Devgad, has been forced to source fruit from larger farms to keep her father’s business afloat.
“If we don’t deliver on our orders, the big clients will not return next year,” she said.
India is the world’s largest grower of mangoes and produced 28 million metric tons of the fruit in 2024 to 2025, data from research and rating agency CRISIL showed. Maharashtra is renowned for its Alphonso mangoes, but officials say hotter weather has ruined this year’s crop of the variety known as the “King of Mangoes”.