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mango varieties around world

prabavinash72 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 07:43:39 +0000

Poll question: How many mango varieties r in our country including desi, cultivars, etc
Options:
20
1000
50
1500
110
Ans: Scientific name of Mango is Mangifera Indica. This indicates that maximum varieties of mangoes can be found in India. Worldwide mango varieties can exceed 1500 wherein around 1000 can be found in India making it the largest producer of mangoes in the world.
Our traditional local varieties were typically the sucking varieties, with lot of fibre and juice in it. Through grafting techniques, cultivars like Alphonso, Kesar, Chausa, Mallika, Langra, Dasheri, etc.
These varieties r rich, creamy, tender, non-fibrous juicy pulp varieties with each cultivar having their own unique distinct flavour.
Sweetness of mangoes r measured with the use of refractometer to find the degrees brix which shows percentage of sugar. The Alphonso from Maharashtra and Chausa from North India vie for the most sweetest of mangoes with 20 to 24 degrees Brix. But many local desi varieties when tested had sweetness index even above 30 degrees brix.
Here we would like to highlight that in the race to produce quick yielding cultivar varieties, many local varieties have faced the axe and r extinct. We need to make an all out effort to conserve our desi, non grafted, non-glorified varieties like raiwal, desi badam, desi gola, etc and many other local varieties of each region.
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types of seeds worldwide

prabavinash72 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 07:41:10 +0000

Poll question: What type of seeds r available worldwide?
Options:
Gmo seeds
Hybrid seeds
Native seeds
Open pollinated seeds
Non edible seeds
Commercial seeds
Heirloom seeds
Ans: Due to globalisation, commercialisation as well as wish to control agricultural economy, natural, native, open pollinated and heirloom seeds r scarcely available in the market. Many of them hv disappeared without trace or hv become extinct.
These native seeds hv been replaced by manmade Gmo seeds, hybrid seeds, commercial seeds, etc. These seeds come with its own drawbacks and complications as they r poison laced and/or genetically modified. Intention of creating these types of seeds by the international clogomerates was to hv monopoly on seed control and distribution. Also, these seeds needed high levels of fertilizers and pesticides to give the stipulated yield.
An all out effort is being taken to save native/heirloom seeds by opening native seed banks all over and helping its propogation. World’s heirloom seeds r conserved in Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Artic Islands. Rare Forest tree seeds of our ghats r collected, propogated as well as stored to ensure continuity, though many have faced extinction due to mindless defo

r all trees around world identified?

prabavinash72 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 07:27:51 +0000

Poll question: Has humanity identified/named all trees around the world?
Options:
Yes
No
Ans: There r around 73000 unique identified species of trees around the world. Number of trees around the world Scientists r guessing that around 9000 species of trees may yet to be identified and documented as they r mostly located deep within the inaccessible forests. We hv a long way to go…added to that, hybridization and grafting techniques thereby creating so many variations in leaf, flower and fruit size leading to difficulty in precise identification.