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By Anagha R Manoj AGRICULTURE | KARNATAKA
Karnataka farmer Anil Balanja has been growing over 700 varieties of exotic fruits from 40 countries on his farm for the past 20 years.
Karnataka-native Anil Balanja grew up watching his father cultivating several varieties of jackfruit and mango. He was always certain about being a farmer and started off by planting areca, coconut and rubber at the age of 19.
Five years ago, the youngster decided to follow in his father’s footsteps. He planted different types of exotic fruits on his farm which are rarely grown in the country. This includes avocados, santol from Malaysia, Kepel from Indonesia and many more.
Today, Anil’s farm, located in the Dakshina-Kannada district, is rife with over 700 exotic fruit varieties collected from 40 countries. He sources the seeds of each fruit from his friends abroad and nurseries.
He also keeps a detailed record of each fruit, favourable temperature to grow, soil type, scientific names and even medicinal values. He now runs a nursery of his own to propagate the fruits he gathered.
The farmer also grows seedless variants of mango, jackfruit, lemon, guava and Jamun on his 30-acre farm. His tropical fruit collection is from Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Brazil, Thailand and more. The farming was begun by planting Biriba from Brazil.
Here’s a look into Anil’s amazing fruit farm:

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Winning tip: Strawberry Fields, Lifton, Devon
Let me take you down … to the cream of the crop, an 81-hectare (200-acre) slice of Devon heaven on the banks of the River Lyd, where you’ll discover life isn’t a bowl of cherries … it’s actually a punnet of strawberries. Nestled on the doorstep of Wooladon Estate and known locally as Lifton’s Strawberry Fields, you can berry pick here to your heart’s content among hay bales decorated as Peter Rabbit and novelty scarecrows that would give Worzel a run for his money. The farm also offers PYO apples and pears, and miniature picnic tables stacked high with pasties and pastries, that make you feel like Gulliver in Lilliput. It’s £1.50 a booking slot for PYO and from £7.50 per 1kg.
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Hawkswick Lodge is a tiny, family-run fruit farm on the outskirts of St Albans. It may be small, but it is mighty when it comes to the range of soft fruits you can pick here. Three types of strawberry include the musically named sonata and jive varieties; four types of blackberries, including the supersize Karaka; plus raspberries, gooseberries, blackcurrants and redcurrants. They have embraced the “no mow” philosophy with patches of wild grasses, buttercups and clover that attract bumblebees, as well as peacock and small tortoiseshell butterflies that sunbathe on the paths. The farm has delayed opening because of recent poor weather but says the berries as a result should taste extra sweet this year.
Opens 3 July, hawkswickfruit.co.uk
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