Overview
- The season’s first ripe Miyazaki mango was offered to Lord Ram at the Ayodhya Ram Mandir on Monday in keeping with local first-harvest custom, with the fruit presented alongside a Tulsi leaf.
- Farmer Omprakash Singh said he planted the Miyazaki sapling about two years ago as a trial and that the tree produced roughly a dozen fruits this season weighing about 150–300 grams each.
- News reports describe the Miyazaki as a high‑value Japanese variety often called the “Egg of the Sun,” and cite international prices of about Rs 2.5–3 lakh per kilogram or roughly Rs 1 lakh per fruit, figures that the coverage reports rather than independently verifies.
- Mahant Sitaram Das Ji Maharaj and visiting devotees hailed the offering as spiritually significant and noted this as the first time the variety has been produced in Ayodhya, giving the event local symbolic importance.
- Singh’s orchard also contains other Indian and foreign mango varieties, and the successful fruiting could encourage further cultivation trials, boost local interest in specialty horticulture, and raise demand for similar offerings or agritourism visits.