Why are they trashing it tho?
To keep the supply in line with demand to maintain the price?
Would the loss incurred here be better than that if they sold it cheaper?
storage costs money. if no one is buying anything and your storage is getting filled the fastest way to get rid of it is to just dump it in the wild.
So they consider the resources they spent to cultivate and harvest the fruit to be sunk cost?
Also fruit doesn’t last forever it’s not very shelf stable. So you have to harvest it when you can and if it doesn’t sell in time you have to trash it. Nothing anyone can do with rotting tangerines. Make room for the new harvest by trashing the old harvest so you can at least try to sell something fresh rather than old fruit. There isn’t really another option. Sure you could try to compost it or something but I’m sure these farms already are setup to compost a normal amount of waste, nothing useful to do with tons of extra fruit.
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