Mango Can Make You Rich (standard:non fiction, 1106 words)
Author: Juggernaut	Added: May 03 2011	Views/Reads: 3769/2037	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
The story of Mango fruit known to be liked from hudreds of years B.C.,

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harvest. 

Julie Mango is a sought after Mango variety in the Caribbean. 

Several households in Trinidad have Julie Mango tree in their 

backyard.  Mr. Diljohn was fortunate one to have a Julie Mango tree in 

his backyard.  Every Mango season, he protects the tree from thieves 

set out to steal its fruits.  Juggernaut had the opportunity of working 

with Diljohn in the chemistry lab where Diljohn was the senior lab tech 

in charge of making chemical reagents and setting up the apparatus for 

the students. At the end of each lab, Diljohn would give few slices of 

fully ripe Julie Mango with sweet juice oozing out to the three 

teaching assistants but he singles out Juggernaut to take home two 

fruits as a gesture of friendship.  This he did for 5 years when 

Juggernaut worked as a teaching assistant at the chemistry lab. The 

other two teaching assistants both from England got jealous and one day 

with boldface asked Diljohn for this disparity. “Well, Julie Mango was 

brought from India and Juggernaut is from India and loves Mango, so he 

gets the additional treatment,” said Diljohn with straight face. And 

they never complained and settled for few slices of Julie Mango. Though 

Diljon's Mango fruit was always sweet, his personnel life was anything 

but sweet, he was a gambling addict; addicted to betting on horse 

racing.  Failed to wane him from his gambling addiction, his wife and 

two kids left him for Canada.  Juggernaut noticed in the lab that 

Diljohn wrapped his Mangoes to ripen fast with news papers always from 

horse racing section, apparently the only section of the papers he 

saved. When he was not preparing reagents or servicing the lab 

equipment, he was busy checking race sheet for betting.  At lunchtime 

he will go to a nearby betting joint at Curepe junction to place bets 

and wait the rest of the day for the results. While he lost some and 

won some bets, the taste of his Julie Mango was consistently sweet. 

Enjoying the taste of Diljohn's Julie Mango in the backroom while 

students were busy in the lab was an unforgettable event for Juggernaut 

even after 35 years. 

British brought Mangoes and Mongoose to Jamaica, the later to 

control the snake population. Though Mango fruit is relished by all 

Jamaicans, Mongoose became a pest now, robbing live poultry from the 

farmers' since there were no snakes left on the island to feed. 

Several years ago, Juggernaut was driving on Clarendon Plains 

in Jamaica, all of a sudden, his mother in the passenger seat 

screamed “stop, stop stop.”  Juggernaut applied brakes to stop the car 

suddenly only to hear her mother say “look those Mango trees.”  “Yeah, 

what about them?” “The entire route has Mango trees on both side of the 

road” replied irritated Juggernaut. “Go and fetch some green Mangoes.” 

She was amazed at the roadside Mango trees that were planted more for 

its shade than fruit.  “If it was back home, none of the fruits would 

reach thus far in size before somebody steals them,” wondered his 

mother looking at the fully grown green Mangoes in her hands.” “These 

people are crazy for not picking them,” she said.  Juggernaut wondered 

whether his mother was crazy to get excited to see green Mangoes 

hanging from roadside trees or the local people who don't really care 

for green Mangoes.” 

The market for worldwide demand for Mango is now large 

enough for members of the Chicago Board of Commodities Market to take 

notice. Like Oranges, Cocoa, Coffee and Tea, Mango should be traded on 

the Commodities Features Market. Just imagine big temperature drop 

during Mango flowering season means less fruit and a huge price hike 

for the fruit. There is serious money to be made on Mango trading on 

the commodities market. 

Mango Chutney became a fashionable dip in American culinary 

lexicon in recent years. Once Mango gets on the commodities market, its 

production from Florida to Chile and from Africa to Asia, would reach 

new heights. Mango will be the king of Fruits making money for 

Investors spreading sweet Mango jam on hot toast for breakfast. 


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