Month: April 2012

We are pleased to inform that we have started accepting orders for Mumbai and Pune. As you are aware from our earlier posts that the production of Alphonso Mango has been affected and so we will be extremely short of supply. Please bear with us that we will not be in a position to supply mangoes for all orders. Please visit devgadmango.com to place your orders.

Kindly note that due to the extreme shortage, we will process orders only on prior payment. There has been a huge loss of our member farmers due to cyclones and rainstorms, and so prior payment will help us pay our members immediately. We have activated a cash-pick up facility for Mumbai and Pune. We have tied-up with cash collection company Gharpay, which will collect money on our behalf and will give you the receipt.

Also note that on Monday 9 April 2012, we have also started sale centers in Pune and in Mumbai at Thane, Dadar and Girgaon looked after by our personnel. We will send some mango there that will be immediately available. Below are the addresses and the numbers of our personnel available there.

Pune Sale Centre
Bendre Blocks, Sadashiv Peth, Next to Perugate Police Chowky. (Directions: From Perugate Police Chowky, as you start traveling towards Hatti Ganapati, enter the first gate on the left side): Contact: 8600411173

Mumbai Sale Centres:
Thane:
Kamate Bhavan, Sambhaji Road, Vishnunagar, Opposite Satyam Collection, Naupade, Thane West. Contact: 9422584166

Dadar:
Sunshine Heights, Shop No. 1, P.L. Kale Guruji Marg, Opposite, Samarth Vyayam Mandir, Jain Health Centre Lane, Dadar West. Contact: 7350018691

Girgaon:
Tarabhuvan, Ground Floor, Shop No. 10, Nanubhai Desai Road, Khetwadi, Third Lane, Near Wilson Highschool, Girgaon: 4
8600411940, 9892136449

It has been a very devastating time this season. In December 2011, we were looking forward to a decent crop this Alphonso Season 2012. Then all of sudden Cyclone Thane swept across Southern Indian. It was the strongest tropical cyclone of 2011. While everything was going fine till then, the after-effects of the cyclone took away the winter and cold weather. We were expecting winter to stay till mid-January and then start getting warm, which would have helped good production of the mango fruits. However, after the cyclone, it started to get warm immediately and remained warm till January end. This adversely affected the production of mangoes.

As fate may have it, it started getting cold in February and it stayed cold till the last week of March. This pushed the season further and the expectation was that Season 2012 will start by 7-10 April 2012 at least. As the cold stayed back for a longer time, it created a favorable atmosphere for the Thrips pest, which wreaked havoc on the trees. The new species of Thrips discovered last year made its appearance this year too and there is no pesticide available on it as yet.

Then adding insult to injury, a strong mini-storm swept across the Alphonso Mango producing belt in Devgad and Ratnagiri, April 2 and 3. It uprooted many mango trees and took down a huge amount of the standing mango crop. See the photo below. The storm also brought sandstorms and rains along with it, with created widespread devastation.

In totality, this has been a devastating season for the mango producing farmers in Devgad and the entire Konkan region. Whatever mangoes have been left on the trees will mature by April 20 and barely 30 days after that the Season 2012 of Devgad Alphonso Mango will end!