Meet The Man Who Grew 300 Mango Varieties on a Single Tree

Meet The Man Who Grew 300 Mango Varieties on a Single Tree

Kalimullah Khan was never meant to become a scientist. He failed Class 7, dropped out of school, and spent his days wandering his family’s mango orchard in Malihabad, Uttar Pradesh. But what he lacked in formal education, he made up for in instinct — and an idea no one else dared to imagine: what if a single tree could grow hundreds of different mangoes? Today, the 84-year-old is a Padma Shri awardee, known across the country as the ‘Mango Man o…