Divya Delhi: The letter read at the venue said festivals like this promote agricultural diversification and farmer incomes through marketing and technology.BJP Kanpur MP Ramesh Awasthi hosted Talkatora Stadium's 18th Bharat Mango Festival. Narendra Modi penned a letter thanking the event for helping farmers and agriculture. The letter read at the venue said festivals like this promote agricultural diversification and farmer incomes through marketing and technology. Prime Minister Modi said such platforms complement PM Kisan Samman Nidhi and e-NAM, which give growers direct financial support and online trading to eliminate intermediaries and increase agricultural transparency.Ramesh Awasthi launched the event 18 years ago to give mango farmers a national forum for variety, academic study, cold-chain and storage knowledge, and buyer-seller relations. After many editions, the Delhi fair became a national platform with 350+ varieties, farmer seminars, and an annual farmer felicitation. This year, constitutional or top administrative officials like Delhi LG VK Saxena encouraged culture and agriculture. Foreign envoys, cross-party MPs, and union ministers spoke.More than 18 Union ministers—BL Verma, Ramdas Athawale, Shripad Naik, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Bhagirath Choudhary, S P Singh Baghel, Virendra Kumar, Savitri Thakur, Prataprao Jadhav, Rajbhushan Chaudhary, Harsh MalhotrOver 350 mango varieties were shown, including Dasheri, Chausa, Alphonso, Banganpalli, Kesar, Safeda, Fazli, Neelam, and Mallika. Visitors liked the ‘Modi Mango’ for its color, scent, and unusual agricultural and modern name. Over 50 organic and bio-fertilizer exporters from UP, Bihar, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, and West Bengal won. Farmers showed cold-chain logistics, pest management, and digital farm-to-consumer tracking while researchers and agricultural institutions debated storage, quality, and market access.The Prime Minister's “Shree Anna” campaign was honored at a millet-themed community luncheon during and following the UN's 2023 International Year of Millets. Shree Anna awareness and high-traffic eating event statistics say millets cycle mango crops for soil health. Millets are promoted by the government as nutrition-dense, climate-resilient crops that boost farmer income and lower input costs.UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath called it “taste of Atmanirbhar Bharat.” Awasthi said the Prime Minister's endorsement belongs to every farmer whose work preserves the country and that the festival's objective is to make farmer voices crucial to policy and markets after 18 years of connecting rural farmers with metropolitan opportunities and professional skills