Junagadh: The famous Kesar keri (mango) today made its first presence in Junagadh marketing yard much ahead the coming mango season.

An employee of the yard said that in the first lot around five to six thousand boxes of the Kesar mango arrived today.

The mango, which is also a famous item of Saurashtra region of Gujarat like its Gir forests, the sole home of Asiatic lions, was sold at quite a costly rate of around two to three thousand a box of 10 kg (ie Rs 200 to 300 a kg against the peek season rate of Rs 30 to 60) on day one.

The yard employee said that in the coming days with proper advent of summer, when more and more lot of the mango would grow and ripe on the trees by itself, the arrival of Kesar in the yard would increase manifold.

Currently the unripe and smaller mangoes are arriving in larger proportion. These are used in various dishes and also to make special sour sauce.

Kesar mango, one of the favourite of Gujarati lot, is also liked by mango lovers of other parts of the country.

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