New Delhi: Mukesh Ambani is already an enormous title in petroleum, telecom and retail sectors. Now he has additionally entered the agriculture sector. His firm Reliance Industries (RIL) has develop into the world’s largest mango exporter. This story began in 1997 when Reliance’s Jamnagar refinery in Gujarat was going through the issue of air pollution. To discover a answer to this, Reliance planted a big mango orchard on the barren land across the refinery. This not solely lowered air pollution but in addition introduced greenery across the refinery.
This orchard, named after Reliance founder Dhirubhai Ambani, has greater than 1.3 lakh mango timber unfold over 600 acres. Greater than 200 forms of mangoes are grown in them. To make this challenge profitable, Reliance resorted to trendy methods. For instance, changing salt water into recent water, rain water harvesting, drip irrigation and superior fertilizer utility strategies. Yearly about 600 tons of mangoes are produced from this orchard.
International forms of mangoes are additionally grown together with the native ones
It contains well-liked Indian varieties like Kesar, Alphonso, Ratna, Sindhu, Neelam and Amrapali. Together with this, there are additionally overseas varieties like Tommy Atkins, Kent and Lily which have been introduced from Florida and Israel.