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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Walking in the footsteps of his father, Ravi Marshetwar decided to bring a social reform with his skills and ability. Ravi, who earned an engineering degree and worked for 10 years as a Civil Engineer ...

“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 ...

The mango has been a major cash crop in Tana River County for decades. At least 20,000 households depend on the fruit for their livelihoods, including paying school fees for their children. But mango ...

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 ...