Record heat hurts NT's mango industry

Hottest May on record causing issues for
Northern Territory's mango industry.

The Top End of the Northern Territory is having one of its hottest May's on record, which is causing issues for a number of mango plantations.

President of the NT Mango Industry Association, Leo Skliros, said the weather had been very unusual and only 20 to 25 per cent of mango trees in the Darwin rural area had flowered.

"The industry likes to see five days under 20 degrees to start getting some flowering happening," he said.

"If you don't get that cooler weather, it normally ends up pushing a new flush and then you have to wait six to eight weeks."

The temperature is yet to fall below 21 degrees in Darwin this year.

Read the Matt Brann’s ABC Rural story - “Record hot temperatures around Darwin stopping most mango trees from flowering.”