A number of schemes for development of the mango fruit had started with big promises but without any result. Malihabad of Lucknow has its own history with number of tales related to mangoes, which has its own market. MP also has a number mangoes species in Panchmari forest but it is living in its unknownity. Dr. Parsai, a known agriculture scientist, once enhanced the quality of mangoes by grafting, which now seems no where.
There has been no presence of mango in market named after 'Panchmarhi'. Later, administration had set up Agro industries Corporation over thousand acre of land in Babai area for the development of mangoes which also proved to be a futile effort. There is no market where we hear that mangoes have come from 'Babai'. Once this issue was also raised in the assembly. The agriculture Minister of that time, Subhash Yadav, had joked saying that the Corporation itself sold its mangoes at its own stalls. The approach was completely impractical, that's why it met with same fate what earlier claims met. Now, the administration is looking for the privatisation of the mango farm.
There is another news which gives glaring dimension to the identity of Bhopal. Government has planned to develop Bhopal as a Mango hub and also start working on it. the State's first mango hub is being developed in Berasia tehsil, under 67 villages. It is a plan of five years in which 'dashari' and 'chausa' mangoes are being developed, which will also be exported to foreign countries. Its hybrid quality will come to market in the next three years. There have been plans to train farmers, plant one-lakh trees and to tread of grafting mangoes species, and to form the 'Farmer Federation' in next five years. It is hoped that this ambitious plan would not meet the same fate as met by earlier projects at Panchmarhi and Babai.
Source: centralchronicle.com
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