Chiquita has announced that approximately 1,600 hectares of the company’s banana farms in Honduras and more than 500 hectares of independent farms have been severely flooded due to heavy rains from Tropical Storm Gamma. Damage is still being assessed, but affected land could be out of production for several months, with some areas affected for more than a year.
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