With the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) department vowing to crack down on traders found using calcium carbide to ripen mangoes, the city’s mango dealers are finding the action a bitter pill to swallow. Traders are threatening that they will not purchase mangoes from farmers this season because they believe that the FDA’s rules are illogical and would be difficult to adhere to.u00a0

Storage concerns: Considering the quantity of cartons that arrive daily, traders say that there would be no place to store these boxes after a few days. Representation Pic