Jazan– Jazan Region has made vast steps in developing the agriculture of mango and expanding its production through increasing farmers and preparing farms and trees, achieving one of the targets of the Saudi Vision 2030 through the sustainable agricultural rural development program that was launched by the Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture with the aim of improving the agricultural rural sector and contributing to raising the living conditions of rural families and increasing the production efficiency, improving the lifestyle, and realizing food security, including supporting the planting of mango.
The production of Jazan jumped from 18,000 tons of mango annually in May 2005 with the launch of the first edition of the annual mango festival, when the region included 250,000 trees only at the time that produced 30 types, to reaching 19,109 farms of mango in 2022 that includes 1,000,000 mango trees with an annual production of 65,000 tons.
The Agricultural Research Center in Jazan contributed to developing mango farming, where center fields currently incubates the mothers and oldest of mango trees in the region, where planting mangos started in 1973 as an experiment, before the modern experiment starts in 1983 through introducing new global kinds from the US, Kenya, Egypt and India, which reached 60 kinds that achieved wide successes.
The mango production season starts in mid-March to reach its peak in May, where mango production is characterized by high quality and competitiveness in various global markets, and high ability of shipping and exportation.
Mango farming is spread across several governorates in Jazan Region, where Siba Governorate hosts one of the biggest mango farms with more than 30,000 trees whose production exceed 600 tons annually.
Source: Saudi Press Agency