Kalimullah Khan, the 'Mango Man of India', has cultivated a remarkable 125-year-old tree bearing over 350 distinct mango varieties. This Padma Shri awardee, who left school early, mastered grafting to ...

Kaleem Ullah Khan, known as the 'Mango Man of India,' has revolutionized horticulture by grafting over 300 mango varieties onto a 120-year-old tree in Uttar Pradesh. Despite limited formal education, ...

Mangoes and summers go hand in hand in India. As soon as the season arrives, markets are flooded with all kinds of mango varieties, tempting everyone who passes by. Indians have loved mangoes for ...

A section of Mango farm belonging to Paul Kendagor at his Noiwet farm, Baringo County on. [PHOTO: BONIFACE THUKU/ STANDARD] BARINGO COUNTY: Even after losing a lot of ...

Many tropical fruit trees, including mango, avocado and orange, perform better when farmers merge good fruiting characteristics with resistance to disease. To accomplish this, a single stem is placed ...

Ever wondered if you can pluck different varieties of mangoes off a single tree in your backyard? Or whether your tree can bear fruit earlier than the years-of-wait? Grafting may well be the answer.

Kamugisha (standing, right) and his wife, Faustus (wearing a hat) help the farm employees to make grafted mango tree plantlets. PHOTO BY MICHAEL J SSALI Eden Kamugisha of Kisagazi village in Mukungwe ...

Many people who have space in their compounds somehow never imagine they can grow their very own fruits trees for home consumption in that space. Yet growing grafted fruit trees in your backyard can ...

“Our farmers are not happy. Economically they are suffering. Their children don't want to continue in agriculture, as it is not remunerative. In certain parts of western Tamil Nadu, such as Erode you ...

Who would have thought that one misguided decision taken by officials and lawmakers could lead to large-scale felling of age-old mango trees in the Western Ghats? An amendment to the Karnataka ...

Venturing into mango farming business can be a great long-term agro investment to make. Mango trees need 7-8 years to mature and begin producing fruit. However, grafted seedlings can be grown and ...