The ‘miraculous’ mango tree of an 80-year-old man attracts everyone’s attention with 300 different varieties of fruit on the same tree.
In a garden near Lucknow (state Uttar Pradesh in India) there is a mango tree bearing fruit. If you look closely at each branch, you can see that the fruits have many different shapes, yellow peels, pink and purple types …
That is because the farmer owns a grafted mango tree to create 300 different types of mango per tree.
Mr. Kalimullah Khan has been passionate about grafting mangoes on the same tree since he was 17 years old.
The man with a skillful hand is called Kalimullah Khan, 80 years old, also nicknamed “the mango man”.
The mango varieties he grafted onto trees were brought from a nearby village or from other locations across India.
Currently, India is the largest mango producer in the world with 40% of global production and the country has up to 1000 different varieties of mango.
The special thing is that Kalimullah Khan has not finished high school and has cultivated on the agricultural land left by his grandfather with the support of his son.
Mango tree with 300 different fruits impresses many people when coming here.
At the age of 15, Mr. Khan was delighted to see hybrid roses planted in a friend’s garden.
On a persimmon tree there are flowers of different colors that motivates him to think of a unique mango tree with many fruits. At the age of 17, Mr. Khan grafted 7 different types of mango on the same tree. Unfortunately, flash floods caused this tree to be damaged, but this old man still retains his passion.
Today, he personally creates many different varieties of mango and is known by everyone.
In 1987, Kalimullah Khan started grafting different types of mango onto a 100-year-old mango tree. In addition to grafting, he also created new varieties of mango and named after famous people in the fields …
Currently, he has a farm located in a belt specializing in growing mango up to 10,000 hectares of India. During the harvest season, he and his son pick mangoes and put them in barrels for sale, export or give them free of charge to visitors.
Many famous people visited Mr. Khan’s farm. This old man also won many awards including Padma Shri – the noble award in India.
He also went to Dubai and Iran to teach grafting, in 1999 he created 54 different varieties of mango trees for Mughal gardens in the presidential mansion of India.
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