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                    [ArticleID] => 1538636
                    [Title] => Guimaras Super Galila, the sweetest Carabao mango
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                    [DatePublished] => 2016-01-02 09:00:00
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                    [Title] => A thousand seedlings of Sweet Elena
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At the Ninoy Aquino Wildlife Parks in Diliman, Quezon City, a visitor can see about a thousand mango seedlings. 


These are not ordinary planting materials. They are seedlings of the country’s acknowledged sweetest variety of carabao mango named Sweet Elena.

At the San Marcelino (Zambales) campus of the Ramon Magsaysay Technological University (RMTU), a 1.5-hectare area also now serves as a space where Sweet Elena seedlings are grown.
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Until three years ago, this question elicited varied answers from mango-producing regions of the country.

To the Guimaranons (the people of the island-province of Guimaras, where the number of mango trees is about equal that of its human inhabitants: some 160,000), it’s their much-ballyhooed Talaban and Frosco varieties.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1723283 [AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 371453 [Title] => Zambales mango is RP’s sweetest [Summary] => Mirror, mirror on the wall. Which is the sweetest Philippine carabao mango of them all?

Until three years ago, this question elicited varied answers from mango-producing regions of the country.

To the Guimaranons (the people of the island-province of Guimaras, where the number of mango trees is about equal that of its human inhabitants: some 160,000), it’s their much-ballyhooed Talaban and Frosco varieties.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1723283 [AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 371593 [Title] => Zambales mango is RP’s sweetest [Summary] => Mirror, mirror on the wall. Which is the sweetest Philippine carabao mango of them all?

Until three years ago, this question elicited varied answers from mango-producing regions of the country.

To the Guimaranons (the people of the island-province of Guimaras, where the number of mango trees is about equal that of its human inhabitants: some 160,000), it’s their much-ballyhooed Talaban and Frosco varieties.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1723283 [AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 371733 [Title] => Zambales mango is RP’s sweetest [Summary] => Mirror, mirror on the wall. Which is the sweetest Philippine carabao mango of them all?

Until three years ago, this question elicited varied answers from mango-producing regions of the country.

To the Guimaranons (the people of the island-province of Guimaras, where the number of mango trees is about equal that of its human inhabitants: some 160,000), it’s their much-ballyhooed Talaban and Frosco varieties.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1723283 [AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 371947 [Title] => Zambales mango is RP’s sweetest [Summary] => Mirror, mirror on the wall. Which is the sweetest Philippine carabao mango of them all?

Until three years ago, this question elicited varied answers from mango-producing regions of the country.

To the Guimaranons (the people of the island-province of Guimaras, where the number of mango trees is about equal that of its human inhabitants: some 160,000), it’s their much-ballyhooed Talaban and Frosco varieties.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1723283 [AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 275114 [Title] => Where to get genuine Sweet Elena seedlings [Summary] => The claim of several business enterprises and research institutions that grafted Sweet Elena (Mangifera Indica) seedlings are available from them. Is not true, according to pomologist Bernie Dizon. Dizon operates a botanic fruit garden at the Ninoy Wildlife Parks, Diliman, Quezon City, where he is topworking some 1,000 Sweet Elena seedlings with other superior strains for pest-and-disease-free seedlings with superior fruiting quality.
[DatePublished] => 2005-04-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1665308 [AuthorName] => Ramon Ma. Epino [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 263037 [Title] => Sweet Elena listed among world’s sweetest mangoes [Summary] => The 1995 World Guinness Book of Record lists Zambales as producer of the sweetest mango in the world. The province’s export quality carabao mango varieties and strains have made a significant contribution to the country’s mango industry.

Among them is the Sweet Elena (Mangifera indica) descended from an 108-year-old mother tree in a five-hectare mango orchard in Sabang, Sta. Cruz, Zambales (Sweet Elena nursery) owned by Penida Moselina Malabed. This mother tree produces 2.4 metric tons of fruit per fruiting season.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1665308 [AuthorName] => Ramon Ma. Epino [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 245755 [Title] => ‘Sweet Elena’ the best mango in the country? [Summary] => Ask a resident of Zambales what is the best mango variety in the Philippines and his/her ready answer is: Sweet Elena.

The variety was discovered and identified by Dr. Ester Mariñas and Prof. Remedios Lim of the Ramon Magsaysay Technological University, San Marcelino (RMTU-SM) campus.

Sweet Elena has been registered with the National Seed Industry Council (NSIC). The certificate of registration was awarded to Mrs. Pineda Malabed, owner of the mango tree in Sta. Cruz, Zambales, where the variety was first identified by RMTU researchers.
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