RAJKOT: Amid Covid-19 gloom, smack your lips and savour this good news.
Mango lovers, who are wondering if they would get to relish the luscious kesar this year, will get the fruits delivered at their doorsteps! While the annual ‘kesar mahotsav’ held in Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar is a non-possibility due to Covid-19, the mango growers from Junagadh have got a clearance from the government to start home delivery in Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar from May 3.
Gir Krushi Vasant Producers Company, a conglomerate of nearly 600 mango farmers, will take orders on WhatsApp and Facebook to deliver the mangoes. However, the deliveries would be done just twice a week. The company already has a list of nearly 5,000 regular customers and more buyers will be added through social media.
This farmer cooperative had sold around 70,000 boxes (each of 10 kg) in Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar last year.
Tushar Dhameliya, director of the company, told TOI: “Ahmedabad collector office will give the permission for home delivery on the condition that all of us follow the coronavirus guidelines strictly.”
“The state horticulture department has decided to provide them a farm near Sanathal on Ahmedabad’s outskirts to store the mango stock. “We will be hiring mini pick-up vans for which the collector office has agreed to issue passes,” Dhamelia added.
They have also approached Gir-Somnath collector to permit them to load the trucks from mango orchards.
Junagadh farmers have been selling mangoes directly in Ahmedabad since 2009 at the kesar mahotsav facilitated by Gujarat Agro Industries Corporation.
In Saurashtra, mangoes are cultivated in nearly 20,000 hectares in Junagadh, Amreli and Gir-Somnath districts and the average production every year is around two lakh tonnes.
Talala Marketing Yard, the biggest trading centre for kesar, has already started getting mangoes.
Mango lovers, who are wondering if they would get to relish the luscious kesar this year, will get the fruits delivered at their doorsteps! While the annual ‘kesar mahotsav’ held in Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar is a non-possibility due to Covid-19, the mango growers from Junagadh have got a clearance from the government to start home delivery in Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar from May 3.
Gir Krushi Vasant Producers Company, a conglomerate of nearly 600 mango farmers, will take orders on WhatsApp and Facebook to deliver the mangoes. However, the deliveries would be done just twice a week. The company already has a list of nearly 5,000 regular customers and more buyers will be added through social media.
This farmer cooperative had sold around 70,000 boxes (each of 10 kg) in Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar last year.
Tushar Dhameliya, director of the company, told TOI: “Ahmedabad collector office will give the permission for home delivery on the condition that all of us follow the coronavirus guidelines strictly.”
“The state horticulture department has decided to provide them a farm near Sanathal on Ahmedabad’s outskirts to store the mango stock. “We will be hiring mini pick-up vans for which the collector office has agreed to issue passes,” Dhamelia added.
They have also approached Gir-Somnath collector to permit them to load the trucks from mango orchards.
Junagadh farmers have been selling mangoes directly in Ahmedabad since 2009 at the kesar mahotsav facilitated by Gujarat Agro Industries Corporation.
In Saurashtra, mangoes are cultivated in nearly 20,000 hectares in Junagadh, Amreli and Gir-Somnath districts and the average production every year is around two lakh tonnes.
Talala Marketing Yard, the biggest trading centre for kesar, has already started getting mangoes.
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