This Rare Bengal Mango Fruits Twice a Year, Helping Farmers Earn Beyond Summer

In Bengal, mangoes are not merely fruit. They are memory, migration, resilience, and paradox. Among the countless cultivars that dot the state's landscape, none embody this spirit more vividly than the Dofala — the twice-bearing mango that bends time itself, flowering and fruiting beyond the summer season and offering its bounty when markets are starved and farmers most in need of hope. Custodians of a legacy At 70, Anukul Mondal of Maa Anaapurna Nursery in Radhanagar, Nadia, stands as one of the few custodians of this legacy. His nursery has quietly safeguarded rare Dofala varieties — Bhas...