Reliance & The Mangoes (The Untold Story)

a) It's the story of how Reliance Industries become the World's largest exporter of Mangoes

b) It's the story of how to convert a weakness into a strength

c) Let's quickly go back to 1997 :

One of the biggest weakness of Reliance at that time was the huge amount of pollution it was causing

d) So after seeing this as a threat from the pollution control boards,

Reliance began to convert the wastelands of Jamnagar into a mango orchard near the refineries as a way to control pollution

e) Now that orchard is known as 'Dhirubhai Ambani Lakhibag Amrayee'

f) The mangoes produced in that orchard are of excellent quality and are widely exported at a global level

g) RIL grows 127 varieties of mango in a 600 acre green belt at its Jamnagar refinery complex

-Prathamesh Kakaria