The Mango Lure

A two-day grand Mango fest was organized by Trichur Agri Horti-cultural Society, Kerala Agricultural University, District Tourism promotion council and the Indigenous Mango Tree conservation Project on 28 &29th April 2025at Thrissur town hall. Since Green Ahalia is engaged in Mango germplasm development (Manthopu) at our campus, we visited the fest on 29th April, in search of saplings of Indigenous mango trees which could be new addition to our live collection. The programme had mango display, mango products, Mango clinic and seedling sale. The mango fruit display is truly amazing with over 1600 varieties collected from Kanyakumari to Kasargod as per Sri Satheesan, one of the organisers. It’s in fact a very huge effort beyond our imagination to pool in such a large number of fruits with proper names displayed. Thankfully we got saplings of few species that are not in our collection. It was a great learning experience for us.