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Mango lovers will get to relish a “slender” and “beautiful” mango this summer – a “Yogi mango” named after Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. The mango variety has been developed by the city’s famous mango grower Padamshri Haji Kalimullah. Kalimullaha, 74, who had earlier named mangoes after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and actresses, has developed the “Yogi mango” in his orchard in the Dussehri mango belt in Malihabad area.
The “Yogi mango”, he says, is grown naturally, is slender and beautiful and is a hybrid of the famous Dussehri mango variety. “However, as the mango is still not ripe, nothing can be said about its taste but I hope it will be good”, Kalimullah said. The mango grower had earlier named mangoes after Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai and cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar. Kalimullah says he names new mango varieties after celebrities “to make the legends immortal”. Kalimullah, who has been growing mangoes since 1957, has a mango orchard spread over five acres area at Malihabad.
