Summer season is going on. It is not possible that there is no common issue in this. Mango, the king of fruits, is a favorite fruit of people not only in India but also in India and abroad. People are attracted towards the smell of sweet, pulpy and juicy mangoes, but if you are asked how many types of mangoes have you eaten? Or how many types of mangoes have you seen in the market, what would be your answer? 10, 20 or maximum 30. But there is a person in India who grows so many types of mangoes in his field that you would have neither thought of nor heard the names of them.
This person, famous as Mango Man, is Ashok Maiti. Ashok Maiti, who runs a nursery on 10 acres of land in Jakpur village near Kharagpur in West Bengal, is the person who grows the most varieties of mango in India. He grows 80 varieties of mango, out of which about 35-40 varieties are indigenous and the rest are foreign. IIT Kharagpur also sends farmers to Ashok Maiti for training to grow fruit and flower plants. Ashok Maiti grows mango saplings with his family, let’s know about him and mangoes.
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Started growing roses in 7th class
While talking to AnyTV Hindi, Ashok Maiti says that when he was studying in class 7, his elder brother brought a rose plant and asked Maiti to plant it. Maiti planted it in a pot on the terrace. It grew so well that many flowers appeared on it. In this happiness, many more rose plants were grown on the terrace. Within a few days the entire terrace was filled with roses. When there was no space left to dry clothes on the terrace, mother said to pick up your roses and take them down, no plants will grow here. The interest in planting trees had increased so much that those plants started growing below. Within a few days, I noticed that the neighbors and people nearby also started praising the roses a lot and started having more fun and thought that I would do just this. Brother also told me to do nursery work only, from that day there was no looking back.
Maiti says, ‘I started setting up a nursery in 1978. After about 3 years, in the 80s, Lalu Prasad Sharma, a relative of former Indian President Shankar Dayal, sent a booking for 15 thousand rose plants from Madhya Pradesh. Within a few days we supplied this from the nursery. Then we supplied. At that time the rate of the plant was Rs 3. This was the first biggest supply. After doing this, courage increased and then I started getting happiness by doing this work. Gradually, apart from roses, he started planting fruit trees.
80 varieties of mango exist today
Ashok Maiti says that after roses, he focused on mangoes and started growing almost all varieties of plants available in India. After this, he started growing some plants of varieties found abroad and today all the varieties grown in Pusa of India including those from Thailand, Japan, Australia, Bangladesh are available in the nursery. Here, plants of all varieties ranging from Dussehri, Langra, Chaunsa etc. mangoes to Arunima, Ambika of Pusa, Bainganfulli of South India, foreign mango Miyazaki, Twingo de Tomago, Banana Mango of Thailand are available here from Rs 30 to Rs 400.
Roses have been invented in the name of personalities
Ashok Maiti has also invented a rose in the name of President Pranab Mukherjee.
Ashok Maiti has also developed more than 100 rose species. He brought out the first rose in the name of martyr Khudiram Bose. After that Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Pranab Mukherjee invented a golden colored rose in the name of the President which is still present in the Rashtrapati Bhavan of Delhi. Apart from this, the owner of Bokaro has developed rose varieties in the name of AK Mishra, his village, river, Shiv temple and his father.
grow more fruits
Ashok Maiti tells that apart from mango, now 12 varieties of guava, 20 varieties of lemon, seasonal and orange, 3 varieties of papaya, many varieties of apple, plum and blackberry, mulberry, walnut, plum, jack fruit etc. are also grown in the nursery. Are engaged.
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FIRST PUBLISHED: May 23, 2024, 20:46 IST