Pune: It’s curtains for Ratnagiri’s Hapus

Mangoes from east India like Langda from Malda in West Bengal is expected to hit the market in the next fortnight.

Officially, it’s the end of the season for Hapus mangoes from Ratnagiri this year as Pune has not received any boxes of the fruit for seven days. Traders here say that the Hapus that they are selling is from Tumkur in Karnataka, and even their arrival is set to stop in 10 days. After a dismal last year, the mango season this year saw a bumper crop and an early start too. This year, exports saw a record increase of 20 per cent with the European market opening up in all earnest.

“Mangoes from Konkan had stopped arriving almost a week back. We guess the arrival of Hapus from Karnataka would also stop in the next 10 days,” said Rohan Ursal, a trader in Pune marketyard. Other than Hapus, the local varieties of mangoes like Payari would still be available.

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Mangoes from east India like Langda from Malda in West Bengal is expected to hit the market in the next fortnight. The mango season would officially be over by the end of June. Ursal said that overall, the mango season has been good with excess production flooding the market.

While the market might have seen a good season, growers in Devgad did complain of a late pest attack and heat cutting their produce. Omkar Sapre, chief marketing officer of Devgad Taluka Amba Utpad Sahkari Sanstha Maryadit (a cooperative body of Hapus growers from Devgad), said that the body has done business of around 11,000 dozens for the current season. “Last year the season had seen lesser than 10,000 dozens of mangoes being sold by us,” he said.