Malihanad mango variety named after PM Modi

Lucknow, May 22 : Keeping up the tradition of naming new varieties of mangoes after well-known personalities every year, the mango growers of Malihabad have now named a new variety after Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has often revealed his love for the king of fruits.

Malihabads Upendra Singh said that the new variety of a "desi" mango that has a fat upper part, reminds one of Modis 56-inch chest remark.

The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has registered the variety and handed over the registration certificate to Singh.Technically, this means that no other mango variety can be named as Modi now.The variety, as per claims, has more pulp than fibre, just like Dussehri, a world-famous mango variety from Lucknows mango belt, Malihabad.Modi mangoes are mildly sweet unlike other desi mangoes that are mostly overly sweet.

Singh said that he crossed two desi varieties of mango to develop a new one.Desi mangoes are tukmi or seedling varieties that are grown from seeds.Singh had been working on the new variety since 2019.

In 2021, he presented the variety in mango festival in Lucknow and applied for registration under Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Right Authority (PPVFA).Singh, however, is not the first to have developed a mango variety after the Prime Minister.

Lucknows mango man, Padma Shri Haji Kalimullah in 2015 had developed a new variety by crossing Kolkatas Husn-e-Aara with Lucknows Dussehri and named it as NaMo.In April this year, Ashok Chaudhary, who is also known as mango man of Bhagalpur, had developed Modi-3 varieties of mangoes, after having already developed Modi-1 and Modi-2 varieties.

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