Wildfires turn up the heat on farmers growing Indonesia’s hottest pepper

Mongabay
Jul 6, 2021, 12:40 pm234 pts
HIYUNG, Indonesia — For the village cultivating Indonesia’s most pungent chili pepper, July is a time of prosperity — and potential ruin. That midsummer month is when hundreds of farmers in Hiyung, a village in the southeast of the island of Borneo, begin to harvest the special variety of cayenne pepper…

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