This Padmashree ‘Mango Man’ again did wonders, grew a unique tree in the world, even scientists are surprised
Written by Roneel Narayan on March 1, 2024
Near the Malihabad intersection, just a few kilometres away from Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh, there is the only tree in the world on which more than 300 varieties of mangoes grow. Their colour, shape, size and taste are completely different from each other. Haji Kalim Ullah Khan, a resident of Malihabad, who is 84 years old, is the father of this tree and surprised the scientists of Japan and America by planting this tree. In 2008, she was awarded the Padma Shri by the then President Pratibha Patil for his amazing work.
Haji Saheb is known as Mango Man all over the world. Now he has once again done wonders. He had planted a new mango breed in 2023, which has now become a tree and has very big leaves. This tree is completely different from the usual mango leaves. Their size is quite big. Haji Kalim Ullah Khan is very happy to see such big leaves coming from the mango tree.
He said that in the year 2023, with the idea of doing another experiment on mangoes, he had taken seeds of several mangoes and sown them. Now a small mango tree has arrived. Very happy to see this. This experiment will be successful because all the experiments he has done on mangoes till now have been successful. Lakhs of mango trees have been planted so far. He says that he studied till the seventh class and after that, he failed. Then he spent his entire life growing new types of mangoes and planting trees.
He said that the leaves of this new tree are so big that looking at it it seems that when the mango comes on top of it, it will come of very big size. He said that it would take 3 to 4 years for the mango to become available because its current size would be bigger. Then blossoms will appear on it and then mangoes will appear.
He said that his experience till now says that when the mango grows on a tree with such a big leaf, it will be of thin juice. Thin juice mangoes get digested quickly and give more strength to the people, that is why looking at its leaves it seems that it is going to become a unique tree in the world because till now mango trees with such big leaves have not been found. No one has installed it. This will be a unique mango tree in the whole world, which will have such big leaves.
