India's GI Fazli Mangoes exported to Bahrain?

India's GI Fazli Mango Exported to Bahrain – A consignment of a Geographical Identification (GI) certified mango variety named Fazli, obtained from Malda district of West Bengal, India, was exported to Bahrain last day. The Fazli Mango consignment was exported by DM Enterprises, Kolkata registered by APEDA and imported by Al Jazeera Group, Bahrain.

APEDA has been organizing virtual meetings and festivals between buyers and sellers to promote the export of mangoes. The deal for the consignment sent to Bahrain came days after APEDA organized a mango promotional event in Doha, Qatar.

In this promotional program GI certified varieties of West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh Khirsapati (Malda, West Bengal), Lakhanbhog (Malda, West Bengal), Fazli (Malda, West Bengal), Dussehri (Malihabad, Uttar Pradesh), Amrapali and Chausa (Malda) , West Bengal) and Langra (Nadiya, West Bengal) were displayed in the store of the Importer Family Food Centre.

A week-long Indian Mango Promotion Program was organized in Bahrain in June this year. 16 varieties of mangoes including three GI certified Khirsapati and Laxmanbhog (West Bengal), Jardalu (Bihar) were on display.

These mango varieties were sold through 13 stores of this group in Bahrain. These mangoes were procured from farmers of Bengal and Bihar by the exporter registered with APEDA.

APEDA has been organizing virtual meetings and festivals between buyers and sellers to promote mango exports. It recently organized the 'Mango Festival' in Berlin, Germany.

For the first time this season, India has recently dispatched a consignment of 2.5 Metric Tonnes (MT) of GI certified Banganapalli from Andhra Pradesh farmers and another variety of mango named Survarnarekha from Krishna and Chittoor districts.

Mango is also called 'King of Fruits' in India and in ancient scriptures it was called Kalpavriksha (wish fulfilling tree). In India there are many states which prodcuces the Mongo and mango plantation but Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka have a major share in the total production of this fruit. Alphonso, Kesar, Totapuri and Banganapalli are the major mango varieties exported from India. Mango is exported mostly in three forms or we can say mainly in fresh mango, mango pulp and mango slice.

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