Aam Khas Bagh: Mango harvest begins at Mughal Gardens

Spread across 11 acres of land, the orchard has 3.5 acres of mango plantation apart from peach, pear and guava orchards.

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According to the horticulture department the mango season has not been as good as was expected.

The mango harvesting season has begun at the historic Mughal Gardens of Aam Khas Bagh in Sirhind in Fatehgarh Sahib.

Spread across 11 acres of land, the orchard has 3.5 acres of mango plantation apart from peach, pear and guava orchards. However, according to the horticulture department the mango season has not been as good as was expected.

Speaking to The Indian Express, Swarn Singh Mann, Assistant Director Horticulture , Fatehgarh Sahib, informed that this year 20-25 per cent mango trees were affected due to thunderstorms and strong winds, even though the department had given these orchards on contract for Rs 6.77 lakh. “The mango orchards here are historic. Most of our trees are more than 60-70 years old. Last year, mango trees did not bear much fruits, so peach, guava and pear orchards were given on contract for Rs 3 lakh. However, this year we were expecting a good mango season. But 20-25% crop has been lost due to inclement weather,” said Mann.

Divya Goyal

Divya Goyal is a Principal Correspondent with The Indian Express, based in Punjab. Her interest lies in exploring both news and feature stories, with an effort to reflect human interest at the heart of each piece. She writes on gender issues, education, politics, Sikh diaspora, heritage, the Partition among other subjects. She has also extensively covered issues of minority communities in Pakistan and Afghanistan. She also explores the legacy of India's partition and distinct stories from both West and East Punjab. She is a gold medalist from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Delhi, the most revered government institute for media studies in India, from where she pursued English Journalism (Print). Her research work on “Role of micro-blogging platform Twitter in content generation in newspapers” had won accolades at IIMC. She had started her career in print journalism with Hindustan Times before switching to The Indian Express in 2012. Her investigative report in 2019 on gender disparity while treating women drug addicts in Punjab won her the Laadli Media Award for Gender Sensitivity in 2020. She won another Laadli for her ground report on the struggle of two girls who ride a boat to reach their school in the border village of Punjab. ... Read More

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