Uttar Pradesh Mango Festival 2025
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Uttar Pradesh Mango Festival 2025

Context:

The Chief Minister of UP inaugurated the three-day ‘Uttar Pradesh Mango Festival 2025’ at Awadh Shilp Gram in Lucknow, celebrating the rich diversity and excellence of the state’s mango cultivation.

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  • The event showcased an impressive exhibition of over 800 mango varieties sourced from orchards across the country.
  •  To boost the global presence of Uttar Pradesh’s mangoes, four modern pack houses are established in Lucknow, Amroha, Saharanpur, and Varanasi.
  • These facilities are enabling farmers to better understand quality standards, different mango varieties, and the requirements for export.

Uttar Pradesh Scenario

  • Uttar Pradesh is one of the major producers of horticultural crops and food grains in India, which serves as a lucrative base for the food processing industry.
  •  Largest producer of fruits and vegetables in India – Rank 1 in production of food grains, milk, sugarcane, potato, peas, mango, gooseberry, watermelon.
  • Land under cultivation: arable land: 17681, net sown area : 16546 and total area sown : 25896 thousand ha.
  • Key Investment Enablers Location:
    • Strategic location as gateway to East India and Nepal – well connected through an extensive rail/road network.
    • Diverse Agro Climatic Zones: Uttar Pradesh is enriched with diverse agro climatic conditions. The state can be segmented into nine agro climatic zones having specialities in different forms of agro commodities.
    • Training Institutes: State Institute of Food Processing Technology & R-FRAC at Lucknow, 10 Govt. Food Science Training Centres at Divisional Level and 77 Govt. Community Fruit Preservation and Training Centres at the District Level.
    • Leading Agriculture Universities & Institutes: CSAU (Kanpur), NDUAT (Faizabad), SVPU (Meerut), SHIATS (Naini Allahabad), BUAT (Banda), BUAT (Jhansi) and IVRI (Bareilly) and IVRI (Varanasi), CISH, NBRI, CIMAP (Lucknow).
  • Investment Opportunities Uttar Pradesh offers tremendous opportunities for investment across the entire value chain in the food processing sector.
    • An indicative list of potential projects for investment is presented below:
      • Manufacturing & Supply of Agro Inputs: Given the huge agrarian economy of the state, immense potential exists in manufacturing, production and supply of necessary fertilizers, seeds, agrochemicals, farm equipment, machinery and irrigation systems to increase production and productivity.
      • Extension Services and Technology Transfer – Extension support and technology transfer to farmers on efficient utilization of the agro-inputs is another attractive investment option in the state.
      • Processing – With strong supply-side advantages, local demand, rising export potential and policy support, the processing of products offer immense potential in the state. Considering the abundance of naturally existing agro-resources, investments in mango processing, turmeric processing, aonla processing, breakfast and cereal manufacturing, garlic and chilli processing, etc. is a promising opportunity.
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