International Mango Festival
The International Mango Festival, held annually in Delhi, India during early summer, is a two-day festival showcasing mangoes.
The International Mango Festival has been held since 1987.
Does the luscious mango flavor is running in your mind and it makes you crave for more? Can’t you get sufficient of mangoes, then, you must visit mango festival.
The Mango festival is celebrated throughout the country with high zest and zeal. This festival takes place in month of July in Capital of India usually at the Talkotora stadium or sometimes in Delhi Haat as well. This festival is hosted by the Delhi Tourism Board in the partnership with the Delhi Government.
Festival of King of fruits is celebrated for minimum three days. It attracts thousands of mango lovers just like a honey pot attracts the bees. In this festival different species of mangoes are available under the one roof and so mango lovers must not miss this festival, whole nation celebrate the festival without any discrimination of region or caste. Here one can see more than 400 species of mangoes which come from the different parts of the nation. This festival is most awaited by the mango lovers all around the country and by the capital as people get to enjoy the rare species of this mouth watering fruit.
This festival showcase the rare species like Sirki, Neeleshwari, Suwarn, Royal SP, Himasagar, Raddy Pasand, Kensington, Papitiyo, Banganpalli, Neelam, famous Dushehari, Alphonso, Langra, Kesar, Sensation, Tommy Atkins and Nazuk Badan.
Exceptional species of mangoes such as Aishwarya, Bombay Green from Kaleemullah Khan’s nursery and one of the rarest species Gula by Tariq Mustafa from Purkazi in Muzaffarnagar are also showcased in this festival.
In this mango festival you can enjoy Mango Quiz, sale of fresh mangoes, Mango eating competition, mango processed foods like mango pulp, pickles, juice, chutney, jelly, jam, aam papad and aam panna. You can get the fruit for free and can also buy a small mango tree here.
Agriculture and food processing industries gets the opportunity to display their products in this festival and the main idea of this festival is to provide exposure to the domestic mango industry.