How is Mango Wood? - Its Benefits
Do you know Mango Wood?
You may have eaten juice, yellow fleshy fruit - Mango, right?
But did you know how the mango tree is cultivated and used for so many purposes?
Mango wood is best known for its commercial uses for small-scale farmers & Furniture producers 🏭.. And Mango is called the king of fruits, its botanical name is Mangifera Indica which is an evergreen tree.
Once you plant this tree in your house or field it creates some real positive vibes around it. Its leaves are also used in worship or spiritual functions in India. But that is not it, its tree also has many other uses. So, let’s read and understand how to plant this tree step by step ( from planting to fruits and then furniture).
Cultivation of Mango Wood on Commercial level
Mango can be cultivated in a tropical climate where it grows easily without changing or creating an artificial environment for it.
Step by Step plantation of Mango Tree 🌳
Firstly take a very ripe mango, and cut the fruit from the husk at the center of the mango without cutting through the husk. Remove any leftover fruit from the husk.
Cut the husk open with a sharp knife. Do this carefully, as you don't want to damage the seed that is inside.
Remove the seed and throw the husk away. The seed will be in the shape of a lima bean with a lighter area on top called the eye.
Fill a planting pot with potting soil. Be sure to use a pot with drainage holes.
Wet the soil a bit.
Make a small hole and place the seed inside the hole with its eye facing up.
Cover the seed with half an inch (1.27 centimeters) of soil. The seed should sprout within a few weeks.
Water your plant with lukewarm water whenever you see the soil is a bit dry. Mangos don't need a lot of water.
Replant the plant outdoors when it's strong enough
Benefits of Mango Tree🌳 for Farmers
Framers love to grow the Mango tree, it gives fruit for almost 15 to 20 years, and after its wood is solid for making furniture. Its Wood is Golden brown is the natural color.
Mango wood is known as hardwood and it takes 15 to 20 🕰️ years to grow and is ready to use for furniture.
The wood of the Mango tree is relatively easy to work on and the best wood for carpenters.
For making beautiful furnitureIt is durable 💪 , similar to Acacia wood and Sheesham wood.
Most significantly, the use of mango wood in the furniture industry reduces the use of endangered tree species.
The mango tree is useful throughout its lifetime, so farmers keep on replanting mango trees equal in number which are cut for their uses.
- Mango wood is one of the Best examples of legally sourced wood on earth
We know that Mango fruit is expensive and farmers get a good amount of money through that. So, farmers never cut a young tree for its wood.
And farmers get money by selling its fruits, and wood after the death of the plant. So, these are the benefits for the farmers and this also protects our environment.
Diseases to 🧐 Mango Plant and Methods to cure them
- Powdery Mildew ( Oidium mangiferae)
Solution: Remove diseased leaves and Sprays of fungicide during flowering seasons.
- Anthracnose/ Blossom Blight (Colletotrichum gloeosporioides)
Solution: Infected leaves, flowers, twigs should be collected and burnt. A spray of the right fungicide
( It has many other diseases too, but if you use the organic method of cultivation you can reduce 90% of diseases in Mango. So, it is highly recommended to plant using organic fertilizers. )
Some of the most common verities of Mango are Alphango, Deshari, Neelam, Langda, Nilgiri, etc. So, friends eat them, enjoy the flashy and the king of fruits, And also enjoy 👉 Mango wood furniture.
Our mango wood furniture includes Devi Collection & Wood and Colour.
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