It's raining mangoes in Mangaluru: Mela shows juicy delights from Brunei King, Honey Dew to Alphonso

Mangaluru: The three-day mango mela organised by the department of horticulture was inaugurated by District in Charge Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao at Kadri Park in Mangaluru on Friday.

The mela is organised with the objective of providing market sans middlemen to mango growers. Growers from Ramnagar, Kanakapura, Kolar, Channapatna have arrived Mangaluru to sell variety of mangoes cultivated by them, said Dinesh Gundu Rao.

He said consumers will be getting mangoes at a lesser price when compared to the prevailing market price. Consumers will get organically grown and naturally ripened mangoes. From Alphonso to Mallika, Badami and also those varieties that are grown in foreign countries.

Horticulture department deputy director Manjunath D said that around 37 varieties of mango are sold in the mango mela. Some of the varieties sold are Raspuri, Sugar Baby, Hamlet, Rumani, Brunei King (Thailand), Sindhura, Imam Pasand , Maya (New Zealand), Badami, Honey Dew, Lily (Australia), Konkan Ruchi and so on.

Siddaraju from Ramnagara has come with Brunie King, a large sized mango variety known for its sweet, juicy, and fiberless flesh. Each mango weighs 1.5 kg to 2 kg. He said the variety is basically from Thailand and he had brought the plant from Kolkata. Within three years of planting, the tree bore fruits. “I have five trees of Brunie King variety. This year, I have got around 30 mangoes from these trees. The variety will ripe within 10 to 15 days of harvest,” he said.

Further, he grows 12 varieties of mangoes including “New Nalli”, “Mita Gola.”

Madesha who has come from Kanakapura said that he has come with Raspuri, Sindhura, Badami varieties of mangoes. “The mango yield is less this year due to lack of rain.”

While Nandish from Ramnagara said “we had received rainfall during the flowering season. When the mangoes were ready for harvest, rain played spoilsport. Due to rainfall, pests also affected mangoes. I cultivate mangoes on 20 acre land. I have brought three to four tonnes of mangoes to the mela.”

Mahesh from Ramnagar has come with one tonne of jackfruit to the mela. He has gumless and local varieties of jackfruits.