Michael Bassey Johnson, the man behind The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes, has written something about mango, the Philippines’ fruit icon.
Next to banana and pineapple, mango is the third most important fruit crop of the country based on export volume and value. Find out why it can be enjoyed all year round.The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes
There are several varieties of mango grown in the Philippines, but when people talk about the fruit, they are actually referring to mango carabao. The fruit is elongated and kidney-shaped, weighs about 240 grams, with thin, yellow pulp, very tender taste, and a slight aroma. “Controlled flowering,” he continued, “is ideal to produce out of season crop, to increase production during the normal flowering season, or to offset its biennial, erratic, and sparse fruit bearing habits.”
That was what he did. As Assistant Professor at the Fruit Crops Section Department of Agronomy at the University of the Philippines College of Agriculture, he considered the possible use of synthetic growth regulator Ethrel on mango. Dr. Barba tried some chemicals until he settled for potassium nitrate which, without his knowledge, was already used as a direct agent to induce flowering of any plant. “I found out that KNO3 at 1% aqueous solution was effective as a spray to induce flowering in mango,” he recalled. “Lower concentrations were not as effective, while higher concentrations were wasteful and may injure the shoots. Bulging of normal shoots was observed after one week, and flowers appeared during the second week.
Dr. Barba’s discovery went unnoticed until 2008, when the Switzerland-based World Intellectual Property Organization recognized the mango flower induction technology through a short documentary film that promotes intellectual property. It was the first time that a country from Asia and the Pacific Region was included in the WIPO documentaries.
Larry Stoffel, an American who is married to a Filipino, confirmed this. “The rich juicy flavored mango from the Philippines is the most fantastic fruit I have ever tasted,” he revealed. “It’s true that we import mangoes from other countries but those imports cannot duplicate the mangoes I have eaten in Bohol. I miss the mangoes and can’t wait until I can have some more when I go back there.”
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