However: even if one takes the enthusiasm with which people greeted this news on Sepia Mutiny into consideration (and I certainly do) as an indication of the demand for mangoes once they get to the States, the number of Indian consumers of mangoes is probably staggering compared to the number of US consumers, even if every auntie, uncle, and Indophile living in the US lines up on day one. We know the percentage of the world’s mangoes which India produces and we know the percentage of the mango export market which India owns, but what we really need is the percentage of Indian mangoes which get exported. I would imagine this number is really tiny compared to the number of mangoes which are consumed in India by sticky Indian fingers. oh god, I can’t wait until summer. Sorry, what? Mangoes? US? So does anyone know off-hand how what percentage of Indian-grown mangoes are shipped off to other countries? Or where to look for such numbers?

Ennis (#16):

Furthermore, India is large enough, and transport slow enough that many of those same pressures are present in the domestic market, especially as goods and services begin to travel further and further within the country.

I dunno – how slow is transport here, really? You really think it would take longer for a mango to get from a Gujarati grove to a market in Chennai than it would from that same grove to a market in Jekishan Heights? As goods and services begin to travel further and further within the country, transportation technology improves. I suspect this is how it works, rather than the mango market changing its supply just to get its product to different parts of the country. Do you have any data to suggest otherwise? I don’t have any to support my suspicion, but that’s all it is – a suspicion. You seem to be pretty certain about transport here…

Oh dry has been my mouth, oh bland with foreign taste have i suffered Having to suck on a mexican, a dirty, yellow fruit it makes me shudder

But soon those days, the days of pain and misery will be long behind Cause Bush went to India and realized that Americans had been blind

Doctors, engineers, 7 eleven clerks, and IT nerds had long made India Proud What the world didnt know is that India is where sweet & juicy is also found

So soon the mangoes will arrive and there will be joy in the streets and summers more stickier The expat Indians will feel even closer to home, having moved here all they do is long for the swaad of india yaar.

always need a good reason to party! let the festivities begin!

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