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India, Spasi-id.com - Kaleem Ullah Khan wakes at dawn, prays, then travels about a kilometer to his 120-year-old mango tree and has produced over 300 mango varieties over the years.
His custom was not in vain. As it approaches the branches through his glasses, caressing the leaves and sniffing the fruit to see if they're ripe.
"It's my gift to work hard under the sun for a few decades," said the 82-year-old man in his garden in a small town of Malamabad, India.
"To the naked eye, it's just a tree. But if you look through your mind, it's the largest tree, fruit orchard, and a bunch of mangoes in the world."
The man who dropped out of school was a teenager when he did his first experiment in grazing or connecting parts of the plant to create new mango varieties.
He kept a tree that produced seven new mangoes, but it fell in the storm.
But since 1987, the tree has not fallen, and has been its pride and its affection until now 120 years old, a source of over 300 mangoes each with a sense, texture, color and size, said Kaleem was quoted from the AFP news office, Sunday (21 / 8 / 2022).
One of the first mango varieties he named Aishwarya, according to Bollywood star and the winner of Miss World 1994 Aishwarya Rai Bachchan's beauty contest. To this day, it's still one of his best creations.
"Mango is as beautiful as his actress. One mango weighs over a kilogram, has a red strand on its outer skin and it tastes very sweet," the Khan says.
Another mango variety he mentioned in honor of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the cricket hero Sachin Tendulkar.
