Mango and jackfruit mela begins in Shivamogga

Key points

• A three-day mango and jackfruit mela organised by the Shivamogga District Horticultural Produce Growers’ Cooperative Marketing and Processing Society Ltd.
• (HOPCOMS) began at the APMC market here on Friday, offering a spread of varieties for fruit lovers.
• Fruit growers, particularly from Ramangara took part in the mela with their produce.
• Krithi Kumar, a farmer from Bilagumba near Ramanagara, said his family has been cultivating mangoes on an eight-acre farm for several decades.
• “We grow 23 varieties of mango on our farm without using any chemical fertilisers, and the fruits are ripened naturally,” he said, crediting his father Vasu for developing the orchard over the years.