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Karnataka’s Ishad mango is becoming rare
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- Hybrid varieties pose intense competition to local mango variety called Ishad.
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- About the mango:(1) Ishad mango is famous for extracting pulp for making value-added products which is century old tradition.(2) he mango has two variants — Kari Ishad, which has thin skin, more pulp and is sweeter, and Bili Ishad, which has thick skin and has less pulp and sweetness(3) It is delicate to handle given its short shelf life. Hence, the fruit cannot be transported to faraway places.(4) The mango, harvested from mid-May, has a short shelf life of not more than two or three days. But its pulp lasts more than a year.(5) Oriental Canneries and Industries set up a unit in Ankola in 1908 to extract pulp from Ishad for making value-added products.(6) The then Bombay government supported it by supplying wood. The pulp is used for making 48 recipes.(7) It was exported to the United States, Australia and Sri Lanka.
- Drop in production:(1) As the trees are becoming rare the production of pulp dropped from 20,000 tin a year a decade ago to between 10,000 to 12,000 tins now, owing to shortage of mangoes.
Source
The hindu