China Millions of Tons of Fruit Rot in Orchards as Farmers Dreams Turn Into Nightmares

"""Pears rotting in the fields become fertilizer. You think you can survive by working hard? That's the biggest lie we farmers tell ourselves.""
""What price do you have to drop to before you buy? The production areas are overflowing with fruit; we can't sell it and have to dump it. We finally got a bumper harvest, hoping to turn things around in March, and now it's all ruined, all stuck in our hands. The market is completely stagnant.""
""Look at these apples! My God, all wasted. They just dumped them all here, really expensive apples, just wasted like that.""
Originally, they thought the New Year of 2026 would bring a good start, but unexpectedly, fruit is piling up across the country. Truckloads of oranges, apples, watermelons, pears… are all becoming fertilizer. The fruit farmers are devastated and crying."