Israeli mango exporter Agrexco is expecting a 20 per cent upturn in the fruit’s production volume, ahead of a promising season.
Exporting under its Carmel brand, Agrexco is offering up a range of mangoes including Tommy Atkins, Shelly, Kent, Lily, Keitt and Maya varieties, as well as its naturally ripened ready-to-eat offer.
Nissim Cohen, product manager at Agrexco, said: “The export season will commence in mid-July and continue until mid-October, with an expected 20 per cent increase in quantities - a total of 6,000 tonnes."
Some 90 per cent of Israeli mango production is grown in the area around the Sea of Galilee, offering perfect climate conditions for cultivation.
In order to provide extra-safe fruit, Agrexco’s growers took part in an experimental project to exterminate the pest that presents the biggest damage potential for mango, the Middle Eastern fly.
Sterile male flies were intentionally spread in the cultivation areas as a means to reduce the fly's population and thus lessen usage of chemical pesticides (sterile insect technique).
The exporter is selling the fruit under the strapline ‘Carmel's mango is extra tasty, extra healthy as befits today's healthy lifestyle’.
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