ROADTOWN Tortola BVI, July 12th, 2012 – The third annual Mango Array and Tropical Fruit Festival promises to be a day filled with fun activities to promote the production and different uses of mangoes and other fruit trees in the Virgin Islands.
Slated for Friday, July 13 at the Noel Lloyd Positive Action Movement Park from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Deputy Chief Agricultural Officer and event coordinator, Mrs. Arona Fahie-Forbes said, “We are delighted to add to the Mango Array and Tropical Fruit Festival a mango juice competition in an effort to educate persons on the various ways that mangoes can be used.”
She further added, “The mango festival gives the community a detailed look at profitable business ventures utilising some of our locally produced fruits whether making pies, breads, jams, jellies, tarts, smoothies, frozen treats, stews, and daiquiri.”
The mango culinary competition of juices will involve non alcoholic sips and entries are open to the public and vendors at the mango festival. Entries should be registered at the Department of Agriculture’s booth no later than midday on July 13. Judging is scheduled to commence at 12.30 p.m. and prizes will be awarded to the winners of the competition.
Additionally the day will feature a display of locas fruits available at this time of the year, a mango eating competition for children, quizzes, games, face painting, bobbing for mangoes, along with a propagation session which includes air layering, budding, and grafting of fruit trees.
Local varieties of mangoes expected to be on display include the ‘Julie’, ‘Boar-Hog’, ‘Tina’, ‘Rocky’, ‘Bandy’, ‘Bulltone’, ‘Touch-me-not’, Hardskin’, ‘Cottage’, ‘Kidney’, and ‘Cutlass’.
The Mango Array and Tropical Fruit Festival serves to promote the cultivation, caring and maintenance of traditional fruits such as mangoes in the Virgin Islands while aiming to unite producers’, supermarkets, proprietors and the community in one to create a sense of identity and an overall greater appreciation for the tastes and varieties of local fruits.
*************************
DISCLAIMER
This article was posted in its entirety as received by SKNVibes.com. This media house does not correct any spelling or grammatical error within press releases and commentaries. The views expressed therein are not necessarily those of SKNVibes.com, its sponsors or advertisers
British Virgin Islands News