USA - US farmers have destroyed millions of pounds of perishable food like tomatoes, lettuce and green beans because growers lost a vast number of customers after the coronavirus pandemic struck. "It's a catastrophe, it really is," said Tony DiMare, a long-time tomato grower based in Palm Beach County, Florida. DiMare said he let 10 million pounds of tomatoes rot on the farm in a region south of Miami because no market existed for them. "It's been a disaster at every level - lost crops, lost sales, lost packing inventory," DiMare said.