India’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani, the chairman of Reliance Industries Limited, also owns several other businesses like Reliance Retail, Reliance Jio, etc. However, Mukesh Ambani also owns the largest orchard of mangoes in Asia.
The story of Mukesh Ambani’s decision to set up a mango orchard started in the late nineties when Reliance was facing challenge of massive pollution being caused at its Jamnagar refinery. Reliance received several warnings from the Pollution Control Boards to do something about the huge pollution caused by its refinery. That’s when Reliance converted the wastelands near the refinery into a green belt with over 100,000 mango trees. The orchard was named as Dhirubhai Ambani Lakhibag Amrayee, after Mukesh Ambani’s father and Reliance Industries founder Dhirubhai Ambani.
“Apart from major Indian varieties such as Kesar, Alphonso, Ratna, Sindhu, Neelam, and Amrapali, we also have foreign ones such as Tommy Atkins and Kent from Florida, US, and Lily, Keitt, and Maya from Israel,” a company spokesperson stated.
Source: dnaindia.com