In a nursery near Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh in India, stands a massive fruiting mango tree. If you look carefully at each branch, the texture of the leaves are all different, with varying ...
KARACHI: The three-day Mango Exhibition and Family Festival, which opened at the Pakistan Maritime Museum here on Friday, offered a good opportunity for visitors to know more about the mango varieties ...
Changing consumer preferences are breathing new life to several nearly-extinct mango varieties like Husnara, and Ratol as growers are shifting their focus to meet rising demand beyond just popular ...
The author is the Editor, special features for The Economic Times. Has there ever been a happier job in Bombay’s docks than that done by a group of children in 1902? David Fairchild, the ...
Andhra farmer creates banana-peeling, frost-resistant mango variety: Amrutham. A fruit that can endure frost, travel oceans, ...
As the summer season draws near, mango lovers across the country eagerly look forward to indulging in their favourite seasonal treats. From the rich and creamy Alphonso (Hapus) to the tangy Pairi, the ...
It’s the middle of May. In one of Narsapur’s sprawling mango orchard, the air is damp and the black soil, wet and soft. Instead of the hot and dry summer breeze known as ‘loo’, a mellow earthy aroma ...
If you, like so many of us, can’t get enough of that glorious golden globe of summer, the mango, you’re in luck. Turns out that, among all tropical fruit trees, mangoes are the easiest to grow. “It’s ...
If you misplace your farmer’s almanac, there are two ways to tell when mango season has hit Miami: the sweet smell of fallen fruit, sizzling on sidewalks – and the arrival of Fairchild Tropical ...
Kakinada: A farmer with a modern mindset in Chebrolu village of Gollaprolu mandal off Pithapuram is importing exotic mango saplings and growing them without resort to pesticides. Voduri Nageswara Rao ...
Having known the life of Palm Beach pioneers who farmed and built homes with beached shipwreck debris, the Rev. Elbridge Gale probably figured that the sweet food he’d toiled to propagate would have ...