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Over 300 varieties of mangoes on one tree!
ISLAMABAD, Jun 23 (APP): Haji Kalimullah Khan of Malihabad
(India) a unique grower of mangoes, who developed a rare technique
of growing more than 300 varieties of mangoes of different shapes,
sizes and hues on one tree.
When Kalimullah Khan talks about the variety of mangoes grown
by him in his orchards in the renowned 'dussehri' belt in
Malihabad, it seems that he is fondly referring to his family
members, ARY Tv reported.
Khan's prized tree is about 100 years old on which he started
work in 1987 to develop the craft of growing different varieties on
one tree. He has named the mangoes on this particular tree after
his family members who also were mango growers, he said.
Kalimullah who had put in about 50 years of efforts on mango
growing has lately developed five new varieties of mangoes; mangoes
always considered world over as King of Fruits.
He is, however, excited about a "most delicate" and "graceful"
looking latest variety which he has named as "Aishwarya" as it
reminds him of Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai. "It were the children
in the family who on seeing the new variety remarked that it
resembles the actress in its colour and grace," Khan said.
Among his most precious creations is a tree in the Mughal
Garden at the Rashtrapati Bhawan (Indian Presidency) flowering 54
varieties.
The ten-foot tall tree, having six-foot-long root, was dug out
not with the help of axe or spade but by water currents and
transported from the orchid to Delhi in five quintiles of mud in
1999 as a present to the then President, Khan said.
The craft developed by him has become a mystery for
researchers and agriculturists from the country and abroad who have
been left baffled by his work.
Among his regular visitors is the Uttar Pradesh Governor T V
Rajeswar who had in 2006 named three of his varieties as Nayantara,
Nargis and Jahanara, his son Nazimullah Khan said.
Kalimullah Khan has also cultivated a new variety of all
season flowering guava which on ripening grows as red as apple.
Haji Kalimullah unique growing technique helped him get Padma Sri
Award recently. - APP
ISLAMABAD, Jun 23 (APP): Haji Kalimullah Khan of Malihabad
(India) a unique grower of mangoes, who developed a rare technique
of growing more than 300 varieties of mangoes of different shapes,
sizes and hues on one tree.
When Kalimullah Khan talks about the variety of mangoes grown
by him in his orchards in the renowned 'dussehri' belt in
Malihabad, it seems that he is fondly referring to his family
members, ARY Tv reported.
Khan's prized tree is about 100 years old on which he started
work in 1987 to develop the craft of growing different varieties on
one tree. He has named the mangoes on this particular tree after
his family members who also were mango growers, he said.
Kalimullah who had put in about 50 years of efforts on mango
growing has lately developed five new varieties of mangoes; mangoes
always considered world over as King of Fruits.
He is, however, excited about a "most delicate" and "graceful"
looking latest variety which he has named as "Aishwarya" as it
reminds him of Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai. "It were the children
in the family who on seeing the new variety remarked that it
resembles the actress in its colour and grace," Khan said.
Among his most precious creations is a tree in the Mughal
Garden at the Rashtrapati Bhawan (Indian Presidency) flowering 54
varieties.
The ten-foot tall tree, having six-foot-long root, was dug out
not with the help of axe or spade but by water currents and
transported from the orchid to Delhi in five quintiles of mud in
1999 as a present to the then President, Khan said.
The craft developed by him has become a mystery for
researchers and agriculturists from the country and abroad who have
been left baffled by his work.
Among his regular visitors is the Uttar Pradesh Governor T V
Rajeswar who had in 2006 named three of his varieties as Nayantara,
Nargis and Jahanara, his son Nazimullah Khan said.
Kalimullah Khan has also cultivated a new variety of all
season flowering guava which on ripening grows as red as apple.
Haji Kalimullah unique growing technique helped him get Padma Sri
Award recently. - APP
