In this spirit of the investigation, apples and mangoes can be compared, more as it seems to be heading in different directions. Apples compete for eternal glory, while mangoes are in ruins.
Sample of the following numbers: In the years 2024-25, Indian exports of mango, including fresh fruit and pulp, were awarded on the righteous £1 150 crore. For comparison, the Indians ate the apples £3,800 Crore, which also damaged the earnings of domestic apples from Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh. The total account for the import of fresh fruit came £25 770 crore.
Now that the nation calls its own fruit – such as the Indian bond with mangoes – but it treats neglect, the comparison for the course is the same. When apples conquer the world, should manga be pushed into oblivion?
What pushes the fall of manga?
First things first. India is the center of origin for Mango and scientific evidence suggests that Mangifera Indica was created in the Indo-Burma region, exceeding Myanmar, Bangladesh and northeast India. This hypothesis is based on 60 million -year -old fossil impressions of carbonized mango leaves.
On the other hand, the apple came in the mountains of Central Asia, in modern Kazakhstan and extended to Europe, Asia and America.
In short, mango comes from India and apples are exotic fruits.
Indians are crazy to mangoes and India produces them more than 22 million tonnes every year than bananas.
At the end, however, for several years the sacred manga in India. First, most varieties from Alphonso to Dasteri are between 200-500 years and do not equal well with growing opponents. Factors such as thermal waves, prolonged monsoon, temperature fluctuations and sudden storms take a tax on fruit and its growers.
Farmers will now overtake their harvesting and outsourcing proceedings to suppliers. These operators have used extraction procedures and excessive chemicals for years after night, leading to a decrease in quality, except that fruit causes exports.
Decades since now, if India loses its diversity manga and several valuable cultivars, who can blame it, but itself?
And how are apples prosperous?
Shakying The Future of Mango is in sharp contrast to apples, while global breeding initiatives strive for heat resistant varieties. The University of Maryland has developed new apples that are genetically designed to tolerate warmer growth conditions. As a mild fruit, the cultivation of apples is susceptible to rising temperatures.
Another remarkable initiative is Hot Climate partnership – cooperation between New Zealand and Spain – for the development of apples that can grow in warmer regions. In 2023, the Alliance announced its first breakthrough: the Apple variety called Tutti, which lasts daily temperatures of up to 40 degrees Celsius. This is like growing apples in agra.
After harvesting for apples, the technology also recorded a huge improvement. The apples are now pre-cooled and stored in a controlled atmosphere for 4-10 months without any loss of taste, crisis and nutrition, allowing them to transport at very long distances.
Can’t manga transport over long distances?
Apples are mild fruit, so they are more accessible to cold chain technologies. For comparison, mangoes are tropical fruit harvested in the top of summer. Yet it is difficult to accept that India, the largest producer, has to develop a harvest technology that can extend the life of mango by about a week. This can create a wider market, both inside and outside.
Most domestic mango varieties are now limited to their relevant geography: for example, Zardal from Bihar or Himsagar from West Bengal cannot be found in the markets outside their home state.
Fruit exporters say that the short life of ancient mango cultivars of India, which hover between 5-12 days, is one of the reasons why fruit cannot be sent using longer and cheaper sea routes. An extension of durability by two weeks can be a gamechanger. Some technologies are currently in court proceedings, including one-bio-stimulant called Metwash -vained by the Central Institute of Subtropical Gardening, Lucknow.
The second necessary intervention is to develop the varieties of kept laboratories that are climate resistant, have a higher life or both. Unfortunately, the financing of breeding and research is small. The latest laboratory mango, which achieved some commercial success and popularity between consumers-articles and Amrapali-with in the 70 years developed decades ago.
And why is it?
It is not easy for scientists to work with it because they are highly heterozygous, which means that trees show a lot of variability at the time of fruits (as well as apples). Simply put, the mango tree born from the seed is likely to carry fruit with the same characteristics as the parent tree.
Growers bypass this problem by grafting the best varieties on the seedlings. Which means that the only tree could be a parent plant, say, about the alponso variety, from which tens of thousands of trees were created from human hands. It is a long game and a mistake for breeders.
Scientists say the development of a new variety of mango can take at least two decades. The promising release of the laboratory may take another decade to get to the farmer’s field and consumer plate. This is a good enough reason to raise money to mango resistant climate-not too late.
However, as long as India finds a breakthrough variety of mangoes, apples will continue to steal the show because of their availability between annual annual, fruit quality and aggressive marketing by global retailers.
“The stories of nature of success are likely to look much more like Apple than (vulnerable) Panda or White Leopard,” wrote Michael Pollan in his 2001 treatise, botany desire: Eyes of the plant. If these last two types have a future, it will be because of the human desire to save them, Pollan added.
Mango is a frantic need for some of the “human desire” – or should it say that a very Indian desire?
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