India has scores and scores of varieties of mangoes. Many are very rare. Some are region or state favourites. Find out the most popular choices of each state, as per the National Horticulture Board listing.
Ladakh is the only union territory that doesn’t produce mangoes, while all other states and union territories produce them, even if in minimal quantities.
Varieties: Allumpur Baneshan, Banganapalli, Bangalora, Cherukurasam, Himayuddin, Suvernarekha, Neelum, Totapuri. Andhra Pradesh is one of the highest mango-producing states and 70 per cent of the mango output is from the very popular Banganapalli.
Varieties: Bathua, Bombai, Himsagar, Kishen Bhog, Sukul, Gulab Khas, Zardalu, Langra, Chausa, Dashehari, Fazli. Bihar produced the 3rd largest quantity of mangoes in 2024, 15.84 lakh metric tonnes, after UP and AP, state agriculture minister Mangal Pandey told TOI. Mango belts: Digha, Mithila, Bhagalpur, Gangetic plains.
Varieties: Fernandin, Mankurad, Xavier, Hilario, Monserrate de Bardez. The prized Fernandin and Hilario are late season mangoes.
Varieties: Alphonso, Kesar, Rajapuri, Vanraj, Jamadar, Totapuri, Neelum, Dashehari, Langra. In Gujarat, Bhavnagar, Surat, Valsad, Junagarh, Mehsana, Khera are famous for their mangoes.
Varieties: Dashehari, Langra, Sarauli, Chausa, Fazli. Chausa and Fazli are late season arrivals, but Dashehari and Langra are ready mid-season.
Varieties: Chausa, Dashehari, Langra. Chausa comes at the tail end of the season.
Varieties: Jardalu, Amrapalli, Mallika, Bombai, Langra, Himsagar, Chausa, Gulabkhas. Amrapalli mangoes are a hybrid of Dashehari and Neelum. Jharkhand mango belts: Ranchi, Simdega, Gumla, Hazaribagh, Dumka, Sahibganj, Godda.
Varieties: Alphonso, Bangalora, Mulgoa, Neelum, Pairi, Baganapalli, Totapuri. Karnataka ranks in the top 5 mango-producing states of India.
Varieties: Mundappa, Olour, Pairi. Mangoes come from Kannur, Palakkad, Thrissur, Malappuram in Kerala.
Varieties: Alphonso, Bombay Green, Langra, Sunderja, Dashehari, Fazli, Neelum, Amrapalli, Mallika. Bombay Green is harvested early in the mango season.
Varieties: Alphonso, Mankurad, Mulgoa, Pairi, Rajapuri, Kesar, Gulabi, Vanraj. Maharashtra is another of India's top mango-growing states and the main mango belts are Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg, Raigad.
Varieties: Baneshan, Langra, Neelum, Suvarnarekha, Amrapalli, Mallika. The popular, early-season Suvarnarekha is called Latsundari in Odisha. Mangoes grow primarily in Sonepur, Koraput, Rayagada, Dhenkanal, Ganjam, Puri. Odisha villages/towns are named after mango varieties or vice versa.
Varieties: Dashehari, Langra, Chausa, Malda. Malda is related to the Langra variety. Mangoes are a major crop in Gurdaspur, Hoshiarpur, Ropar.
Varieties: Bombay Green, Chausa, Dashehari, Langra. Mangoes grow in the state's southern and southeastern districts like Banswada. Although experiments to grow mangoes in more desert regions like Barmer have been successful.
Varieties: Banganapalli, Bangalora, Neelum, Rumani, Mulgoa, Alphonso, Totapuri. Mulgoa and Neelum are late mango arrivals. Mulgoa (also spelled Malgova) now grows in Florida under the name Mulgoba (accidental mislabelling apparently) but the first tree planted in Coral Gables in 1902 traces its roots, in part, to Tamil Nadu.
Varieties: Bombay Green, Dashehari, Langra, Safeda Lucknow, Chausa, Fazli. Uttar Pradesh is another enormous producer of mangoes along with Andhra Pradesh. The larger mango-growing regions are in eastern UP. GI-tagged Benarasi Langra mango was first grown apparently in a Shiva Temple in Varanasi some 300 years ago.
Varieties: Bombai, Himsagar, Kishen Bhog, Langra, Fazli, Gulabkhas, Amrapalli, Mallika, Malda. The mango regions of Bengal are Malda, Murshidabad, Nadia. Mangoes that come from Malda that share kinship, minus the fibre, with the Langra species are much celebrated.