On Tuesday, 37-year-old Aneesh Pandey, a fruit retailer, was among a group of buyers waiting for the first consignment of mangoes from Africa at the APMC market in Vashi. When the plywood boxes finally came and were opened, the distinctive smell of Alphonso filled the air. `It is like a miracle, so many generations of children have wanted mangoes in winter, and here it is,` Pandey said. Advertising Malawi mangoes, grown in their namesake African country by a European-African firm, Malawi Mangoes Ltd, are being marketed as `99 per cent similar` to the Ratnagiri Hapus. Malawi is a landlocked country in southeast Africa, between Zambia and Tanzania. `Around 8-10 years ago, grafts from Alphonso...
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