{"id":29820,"date":"2026-04-24T20:03:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/2026\/04\/24\/a-monarch-in-trouble-the-tale-of-alphonso-mangoes\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T20:03:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:03:53","slug":"a-monarch-in-trouble-the-tale-of-alphonso-mangoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/2026\/04\/24\/a-monarch-in-trouble-the-tale-of-alphonso-mangoes\/","title":{"rendered":"A Monarch in Trouble: The Tale of Alphonso Mangoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/>Worry is visible on Omkar Kulkarni\u2019s face as he gestures toward a large mango tree in his orchard in Nivendi village, close to Ganpatipule in Maharashtra\u2019s Ratnagiri district. \u201cThis tree has been here since my grandfather\u2019s time. Not long ago, it would produce around 70 crates of Alphonso mangoes, but this year I\u2019ll be lucky to get just 10,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, about 200 kilometers away in Malvan, in the neighboring Sindhudurg district, farmer Sanjay Nare shares similar worries. Normally, he sells about 25,000 boxes of these beloved mangoes, each containing a dozen. This season, however, he\u2019s concerned he might only manage to sell 5,000 boxes.<br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worry is visible on Omkar Kulkarni\u2019s face as he gestures toward a large mango tree in his orchard in Nivendi village, close to Ganpatipule in Maharashtra\u2019s Ratnagiri district. \u201cThis tree has been here since my grandfather\u2019s time. Not long ago, it would produce around 70 crates of Alphonso mangoes, but this year I\u2019ll be lucky<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[38629,38634,38636,38632,38630,38633,38635,38638,38637,38631],"class_list":{"0":"post-29820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-india-news","8":"tag-alphonso-mango-crisis","9":"tag-climate-change-impact-on-agriculture","10":"tag-gi-tag-alphonso-mango","11":"tag-hapus-mango-price-rise","12":"tag-konkan-mango-crop-failure","13":"tag-maharashtra-mango-farmers-losses","14":"tag-mango-pollination-issues","15":"tag-mango-supply-shortage-india","16":"tag-pesticide-overuse-farming","17":"tag-ratnagiri-sindhudurg-mango-production"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}