Mango Festival, Mumbai Every year the Mango Festival, Mumbai is organized. This festival continues for one month. People specially lovers of this fruit do not miss to visit this festival in Mumbai. This festival is organized by the Konkan Prathisthan Sanstha. Mango is a delicious fruit and due to its great taste, it is considered to be the “King of Fruits”. Thus visitors to this festival savor this fruit to their full in this festival.
The Mango Festival in Mumbai was attended by about 50,000 visitors in 2005. The organizer of this festival hosts it with a noble aim to help the farmers residing in the Konkan region. Farmers come with the mangoes of best quality from the mango producing regions in Maharashtra. The farmers get the opportunity to make
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the maximum profit, as no middlemen are associated with it. This is also beneficial for the buyers as they get the best quality mangoes at very reasonable rates. This festival estimates a business of 50 to 60 million of rupees by selling only the Alphonso mangoes.
Other than Alphonso, one of the popular varieties of mango, varieties like Raigad, Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg are also available to the mango lovers at the Mango Festival. In this festival numerous stalls are set up to sell the different varieties of mango available in Maharashtra. At these stalls, visitors will also get to buy 'amba poli', a local preparation from mango as well as tasty jelly and jams. Cultural programs are also arranged at the Mango Festival, Mumbai for the entertainment of the visitors.
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