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A lawsuit for the orange fruit dropping in Guizhou

( Abstract )

In January in Maling Town of Xingyi City in Qianxinan Bouyei-Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Guizhou Province, 454 households of orange growers sued for seven enterprises at the court. In 2000, fruits of 133.33 hectares of orange gardens dropped before the picking up period. The loss was 8 million kilograms. Looking like to suffer from an infection, fruits of 200 hectares were dropped and over 100 hectares almost harvested nothing. Expert thought that the leading factor perhaps is the result of industrial waste gas meeting with other factors...



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