A tray of 12 mangoes have been auctioned for 50,000 Australian dollars for a charity at Brisbane markets in the country.
A tray of 12 mangoes have been auctioned for 50,000 Australian dollars for a charity at Brisbane markets in the country.
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The dozen mangoes - costing 4,166.66 Australian dollars each - were purchased by Brisbane greengrocer Carlo Lorenti, AAP reported on Thursday. "We had a number of bidders and they pushed him up to the 50,000 dollars this year," Brisbane Markets spokeswoman Amy Kearns said.
Lorenti and his Clayfield Markets Fresh has outbid rivals for third consecutive year. Last year, he had paid 45,000 Australian dollars. "He's not ready to let it go. It's just all generosity on his behalf. A total of about 65,000 dollars were raised in auctions at the market today morning. It's a tough year, and we're just so ecstatic we got this amount," Kearns said.
The funds will be split between children's cancer charity Redkite and Life Education Queensland. The auction has become a traditional welcome to the mango season and has raised over 500,000 dollars in the past 13 years.
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