TANUMAN NI JUAN (Bulan Plantation): MANGO PLANTATION (Brgy. San Francisco, Bulan)

Did you know?

Mangos are the most popular fruit in the World

Mangos were first grown in India over 5,000 years ago
A basket of mangos is considered a gesture of friendship in India
Legend says that Buddha meditated under the cool shade of a mango tree
Mangos are related to cashews and pistachios
A mango tree can grow as tall as 100 feet
The bark, leaves, skin and pit of the mango have been used in folk remedies for centuries

Mango Nutrition

A one-cup serving of mangos is just 100 calories
Mangos provide 100% of your daily vitamin C, 35% of your daily vitamin A and 12% of your daily fiber

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“The king of the fruits," mango fruit is one of the most popular, nutritionally rich fruits with unique flavor, fragrance, taste, and heath promoting qualities making it a common ingredient in new functional foods often labeled “super fruits."

Mango is one of the delicious seasonal fruits grow in the tropics. The tree is believed to be originating in the sub-Himalayan plains of Indian subcontinent. Botanically, this exotic fruit belongs within the family of Anacardiaceae, a family that also includes numerous species of tropical-fruiting trees in the flowering plants such as cashew, pistachio,...etc.

Mrs. Jenena Grey and her siblings are helping together in taking care of their mango trees. They have been doing it for almost how many years since their parents are still alive. Their parent plants the trees and since then, the trees keep on producing fruits.

They have 12 baring fruit trees, 10 for “kinalabaw” mango and 2 for “indian” mango. The trees are planted in a hectare of land. The “Indian” mango can produce fruits without even spraying some artificial flowering chemicals, while the “kinalabaw” mango is the one who requires it to be able to produce flowers and bare fruits.

Production of Mango Tree

A mango tree will takes long years before it can produce fruits. But when the is mature and ready for flowering, it is now the time that is best to give it a chemical that can help produce more flowers give good quality of fruit. In order for it to identify if is mature, the leaves of the tree’s color is darker green.

“Mango Bloom” is the chemical that they use to make the tree bare flowers and “Magnum” is used as insecticide. The flower is being attacked by insects that’s why using insecticide is a lot more helpful. The harvest season is about 5-6 months from being a flower to a mango fruit.

Its fruit is sold 15 pesos for wholesaler and 20 pesos for retailer when fresh picked from the tree and 40 pesos for wholesaler and 50 pesos for retailer when the fruit is already ripe only for “kinalbaw”. They can get an income of 20-25 thousand pesos per harvest per year of both those two kinds of mango.

Problems confronting the Plantation

Always requires flowering chemicals enable to produce.
Insects that attack and destroy the flowers.
Weather conditions such as rain that destroys the flower and typhoon that destroys everything from the mango tree.