MANGO

Alphanso

 It is a leading commercial variety of Maharashtra and one of the choicest varieties of the country. This variety is known by different names in different regions, viz. Badami, Gundu, Khader, Appas, Happus and KadgiHappus.
 Fruits are medium in size, ovate to oblong in shape and orange yellow in colour.
 It has excellent keeping quality and fruits are good for canning purpose.
 It is mainly exported as fresh fruit to other countries.
 It is a mid season variety.

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Dashehari

 This variety derives its name from the village Dashehari near Lucknow.
 It is a leading commercial variety of North India.
 The fruits are small to medium in size, oblong oblique in shape and yellow in colour.
 Good keeping quality and used for table purpose.

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Kesar

 It is a leading variety of Gujarat, with red blush on the shoulders.
 Fruits are medium in size and oblong in shape with good keeping quality.

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Neelum

 It is a commercial variety indigenous to Tamil Nadu and ideal for transportation to distant places owing to its high keeping quality.
 Fruits are medium in size, ovate oblique in shape and saffron yellow in colour with good keeping quality.
 It is a late season variety.

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Amrapali

 Amrapali (Dashehari x Neelum) is precocious, distinctly dwarf, highly regular and prolific in bearing.
 The fruit are small to medium in size, fibreless, excellent in taste and has plentiful pulp. The variety is plate in ripening and is ready for harvest by the third week of July.
 Being dwarf in stature, this variety is ideally suited for high density planting.
 The hybrid has also the highest carotenoid content (16,830 ug/100g pulp) and its pulp can be used as colour additive for juices of other mango varieties.

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Arka Aruna

 Banganapalli x Alphonso
 Regular bearing, flesh free from fibre and spongy tissue, pale yellow in colour, moderately firm, good for mango bars.
 Fruits are big in size.
 Plants are dwarf.

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Neelphonso

 Neelum x Alphonso
 Moderate regular in bearing but have late bearing tendency.
 There is a great potentiality to exploit this hybrid as asource of off-season mango because the fruits from late flushes of flowering ripen even during Septemberwhen no other mango variety can be seen.
 The skin color onripening becomes apricot yellow while the pulp becomes orange yellow. Due to thick, smooth skin thefruits do not get damaged by rain.
 The fruits are free from spongy tissue disorder and are moderateresistant against fruit fly. The pulp texture firm, non-fibrous, highly suited for table and juice

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