litchi

Patna: The air in Muzaffarpur’s villages should be carrying the sweet fragrance of ripening litchis by mid-May. Instead, many orchards this year smell of damp earth and rot.For 35 years, Krishna Murari Singh has tended his four-acre ancestral orchard in Rohua Rajaram village of Mushari block, one of Muzaffarpur’s major litchi-growing centres. His hands bear…