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Farm workers use bamboo poles to pick Dussehri mangoes at an orchard in Malihabad, Uttar Pradesh. You can also clearly hear a sound of mango dropped on the field. The largest of 14 mango belts in UP, Malihabad has 30,000 hectares of land under cultivation. "Malihabad is the mango capital of India. It has some of the oldest mango trees. The groves here are owned by families who have been in the mango-growing business for years, some even for a 100 or 200 years!" Malihabad is the mango-lover's Garden of Eden; Chausa, Langda, Safeda and many other famous varieties of mangoes are grown here. But perhaps the best known and most loved among them is the Dussehri - the king of mangoes. According to the Geographical Indications Registry of India, Malihabadi Dussehri was given a Geographical Indicat
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