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The Philippine
Star, Business, Sunday, August 1, 2004 |
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Chokonan
Mango: A most important mango variety
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The number one fruit export of Thailand and Malaysia
- Chokonan Mango - could be the most important
imported mango variety in the Philippines. It bears
fruits year long even during rainy season.
The fruit is shaped like the carabao mango. But the
resemblance ends there. Its succulent sweetness
tastes like honey, hence, it is called honey mango
in the market. The unripe fruit is also ideal for
eating as it crunchy and not sour.
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Chokonan
is early maturing, unlike carabao mango. The fruit is sweet
and will ripen even when harvested young and immature.
Carabao mango, on the other hand, will not become sweet when
harvested immature even if in is induced to ripen by
artificial means like using kalburo or lime. |
The variety can tolerate adverse conditions that
even without spraying insecticide and fungicide the
flowers will develop into quality sweet fruits. On
the other hand, flowers of carabao mango are easily
affected by humid condition, resulting in the
dropping of its flowers due to attack of
anthracnose.
The original chokonan mango mother tree was brought
from Thailand to the Philippines by Dr. Tito
Aguinaldo and Dr. Vinai Klajring (a Ph.D. alumnus of
Central Luzon State University) fro his farm in
Chantaburi, Thailand. |
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