Meet the Mango Man of India

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Haji Kaleem Ullah Khan is known as the Mango Man of India

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He is an Indian Horticulturist and fruit breeder

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Using grafting techniques, he has grown over 300 different varieties of mangoes on a single tree

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On his farm, a 120-year-old mango tree is home to 30 varieties of mangoes, each of which has a distinctive flavour, appearance, texture, and aroma

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"For the naked eye, it's just a tree. But if you see through your mind, it's a tree, an orchard, and the biggest mango college in the world."

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"This is my prize of toiling hard in the scorching sun for decades," he said in his orchard in the small town of Malihabad

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His grafting technique entails chopping a branch from one variety, leaving an open incision, and then splicing and taping a branch from another variety into the wound.

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He has named some of the varieties after eminent personalities including Sachin Tendulkar, PM Narendra Modi & Aishwarya Rai

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Khan was awarded Padma Shri in 2008 because of his contributions to the field of horticulture.

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