The National Mango Board Costs US Taxpayers $6.7 million dollars per year – IOTW Report

The National Mango Board Costs US Taxpayers $6.7 million dollars per year

Wednesday, 10 January 2018, 11:45 MJA Uncategorized 36

Judicial Watch: Even those who follow government closely may not know that the United States has a National Mango Board with a multi-million-dollar budget to help increase consumption of the juicy tropical fruit. This is a serious matter that is handled at the presidential cabinet level. The Mango board is a type of panel that was authorized by Congress decades ago and has 18 members who are appointed by the secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). It operates under a USDA oversight body known as the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS).

Based in Orlando, Florida, the National Mango Board has a generous $6.7 million annual budget, according to USDA figures. The board is composed of eight importers, two domestic producers, one first handler and seven foreign producers who serve three-year terms. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue recently appointed six members to the board, including a mango producer from Jalisco, Mexico and another from Piura, Peru. The others are importers from California and Texas and a producer from Hawaii. “I truly appreciate the time and expertise that these individuals have agreed to give guiding the National Mango Board in its mission to find ways to provide fresh mangos to U.S. consumers and help their industry thrive,” Perdue said in an agency statement.

Here’s why this obscure government entity exists; to increase the consumption of fresh mangos in the United States, unlikely to be a pressing issue for most Americans. The board accomplishes this with promotion and market development activities that naturally also support a thriving industry. “The board’s vision is to bring the world’s love of mangos to the U.S.,” according to the National Mango Board website, which describes itself as a “promotion and research organization.” The site includes all sorts of interesting information about mangos, including the unique texture and flavors of different varieties, how to ripen, cut and store the fruit and tips on choosing the perfect mango—don’t focus on color because it’s not the best indicator of ripeness. There are also recipes for just about any dish with mango, including tropical mango guacamole, shrimp and mango curry, mango Manchego stuffed with jalapeños and crusted pork with mango relish, among others. Six varieties of mangos are sold in the U.S.; Tommy Atkins, Haden, Kent, Keitt, Honey and Francis.  MORE

36 Comments on The National Mango Board Costs US Taxpayers $6.7 million dollars per year

  2. “The board’s vision is to bring the world’s love of mangos to the U.S.”

    Hunh. The Chamber of Commerce’s vision is to bring the world’s mango lovers to the U.S. Something’s going on here…

  4. I’ll tell you what. Will the people who own mango trees, please start a blog with info about mangoes and recipes containing mangoes?

    There. See? That cost zero dollars, American.
    Sonny Perdue are you going to shut that shit down, or are you chicken?

  11. And that’s just one fruit! Look at all the fruits and vegetables in the supermarket, and most likely the ALL have a federal and state “board” to promote them. And don’t get me started on subsidies.

  12. RADIOATIONMAN/CB/HAM/AM/FM/SSB/VHF- Exactly. Money that should be spent on fixing roads,freeways, etc. Spent on some damned fruit they act like no one knows about.

    Yes, it’s in cosmetics, in smoothies, we’ve seen them. Noted.
    Shut it down!

  14. Tony R – Yeah, here come the advocates for the ‘dark’ colored fruits and vegetables because they don’t get ‘front of the box’ treatment at the grocery stores like the ‘lighter’ colored fruits and vegetables do.

  15. IT’S 2018. People are aware of mangoes.

    Why waste your time marketing your product to THE PUBLIC, when all you need to do it market some crazy idea to THE GOVERNMENT and they will throw millions of dollars at you? Less work, more money.

  16. @RADIOATIONMAN/CB/…etc. (at 12:16 pm): Just think of how far 6.7 million dollars would go toward providing your street with properly cooked sewer flows, instead. Talk about a raw deal!

    🙂

  17. @ AmIRight- ALL mangoes are fruits; only SOME mandingos are.

    My mango tree is flowering now. I’ve been told it produces the tastiest Haden mangos around. I don’t much care for them but the local Mexicans sure do as does my cousin in Cedar Rapids who gets a CARE package of them whenever I think to send one May-June. So do squirrels, birds, bats and monkeys.
    For some reason black folk like ’em green and salted.

  22. National Helium Reserve (leftover from WW I).
    National Mango Board.
    National Cheese Board.
    That phone shit still paying for the Spanish-American War (1898).
    Ethanol.
    Occupation Forces in Japan, Germany, Italy, Puerto Rico, &c.
    All that phony “Climate Change” bullshit.
    Dept. of Education.
    Dept. of Energy.
    NASA (as musselman outreach).
    Oh yeah, don’t they do the same shit for cane sugar ($1 Billion for 7 growers)?

    One scam after another, paid for by us to fuck us.
    What’s wrong with this picture?

    izlamo delenda est …

  23. We have money deducted from every grain check. If we sell corn it goes to corn growers association, soybeans to soybean growers association. They say it goes for promotion as well. Hubby just sold semi of beans and had $57 taken out. Maybe the money goes to govt then dispersed to that board.

  24. Very LUCKY Consultants in the Horticultural world get these gig’s, Iv’e known many and stupidly turned down a similar invite
    myself. These guys joke about this crap, because the people in charge of the projects are Idiots and will pay huge money for little work !

  27. I don’t trust Goolag, anymore. But I’ve got a new idea: “The National Goat Board” (“The board’s vision is to bring the world’s love of goats to the U.S.”). Anybody have the email address of who I should get a check from?

  33. In Hawaii, people can’t give ’em away as big Mango trees grow in people’s yards. You’ll see boxes of Mango’s near sidewalks that say “Free.” When I lived there, I had two giant trees in my yard and it was all we could eat – just from the drops on the ground every day.

  34. Underneath the mango tree
    My honey and me can watch for the moon
    Under the mango tree
    My honey and me make boolooloop very soon.
    A song almost as stupid as:
    When the moon hits your eye
    Lika bigga pizza pie
    That’s Amore.
    My apologizes Dino.

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