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Speaker 1: I believe I've got I'm heading along now because last

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Speaker 1: week's school children from one of the primary schools I

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Speaker 1: believe south of Catherine joined an indigenous owned organization and

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Speaker 1: a team from the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries to

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Speaker 1: harvest mangoes for a day at the Catherine Research Station.

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Speaker 1: Now joining us on the line is the Department of

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Speaker 1: Agriculture and Fisheries and it is there. It is indeed

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Speaker 1: the Senior Technical Officer, Teagan Haybe, Good morning to your Teagan.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Katie, thank you for having me.

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Speaker 3: Oh, it's lovely to have you on the show. Tia

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Speaker 3: can tell me a little bit more.

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Speaker 1: About the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries obviously, you know

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Speaker 1: teaming up in this project.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So we have a lot of mango trees that

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Speaker 2: we have as part of research trials and we collect

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Speaker 2: a lot of data from that like vegetative growth and

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Speaker 2: yields and how heavy the fruit and that kind of thing.

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Speaker 2: But then we don't need all of the fruits, so

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Speaker 2: a lot of it is excess and that's when we

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Speaker 2: invite n raungelung Rides, the Indigenous orange organization that part

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Speaker 2: oranged by join and part owned by Rise Benches, and

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Speaker 2: they come in and they pick our excess fruit. And

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Speaker 2: so this year we've had Waggla schools participate in picking

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Speaker 2: our excess fruit. And so they had a really good

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Speaker 2: day out choosing nice mangoes and learning how to pick

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Speaker 2: them safely, so they had a really good time then

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Speaker 2: distributing them back to their family members in Wagla.

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Speaker 3: I reckon, that's a great idea.

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Speaker 1: What do you hope that they sort of gain from

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Speaker 1: that experience, are.

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Speaker 2: Better understanding perhaps how their food has grown or how

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Speaker 2: mangoes are grown. So they do get to see a

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Speaker 2: little bit of the farm as they drive in, but

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Speaker 2: most of the focus for the day is just on

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Speaker 2: picking mangoes and they learn about how to safely pick them,

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Speaker 2: going to point them away from your face because of

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Speaker 2: the sap spicked out. And then they washed the mangoes

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Speaker 2: and bag the mangoes up and take them home. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: more or less learning about where how mango's growing, where

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Speaker 2: their food comes from.

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Speaker 3: And how did the kids were they excited?

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Speaker 1: Were they pretty pumped to get the opportunity to then

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Speaker 1: sort of choose the fruit to take home as well?

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Speaker 2: They were extremely excited. They had a great time picking

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Speaker 2: fruit for themselves. And some of them didn't even wait

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Speaker 2: to get on the bus before they started eating them.

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Speaker 2: They just sat down in the state and started eating mangoes. So, yeah,

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Speaker 2: they filled up their bags and I weren't ready to go.

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Speaker 2: Now the bags was so good.

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Speaker 3: Who doesn't love a good mango?

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Speaker 1: I mean they are absolutely beautiful, and picking them fresh

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Speaker 1: off the tree, they'd be so nice.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're very very sweet mangoes here. They were very

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Speaker 2: delicious and they're enjoyed by everyone.

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Speaker 3: How good.

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Speaker 1: Now I understand it is also part of a research trial.

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Speaker 3: What kinds of research?

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Speaker 1: Well, what kind of things are researchers hoping I guess

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Speaker 1: to better understand about the mangoes.

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Speaker 2: So we've got two trials that have been running for

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Speaker 2: the last two years. One of them has been running

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Speaker 2: for twelve years, and that's about the rootstock sion combination.

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Speaker 2: So the rootstock's the bottom part of the tree and

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Speaker 2: the silon's the top part of the tree that's been

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Speaker 2: grafted onto the rootstock. So we're looking at different varieties

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Speaker 2: and how they're grafting relationship. Well, the roopstock can influence

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Speaker 2: on the silon and change how a tree can behave

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Speaker 2: according to what silon is there. So you might have

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Speaker 2: a low, bigger tree with lots of fruit, so the

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Speaker 2: tree is not very big, but it's bearing a lot

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Speaker 2: of fruit. Or you might have a higher, bigger tree

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Speaker 2: with a lot of fruits, or it's a big tree

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Speaker 2: with lots of fruit. And so we're just looking at

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Speaker 2: that relationship. So that this is the twelve years for

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Speaker 2: that project. And we also have another set of mangoes

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Speaker 2: that are put aside for other research trials. So we've

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Speaker 2: got one that's looking at flowering and the impacts of

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Speaker 2: temperature on flowering and youth and fruit quality.

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Speaker 1: Oh, good stuff, I reckon it's it is great And

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Speaker 1: we know that the mango industry is well fruitful.

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Speaker 3: Do you like that part? I mean the pun that

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Speaker 3: I've used there in terms of the way which it

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Speaker 3: is around the territory. But how big an industry is it?

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Speaker 2: For Catherine, it's a pretty large industry. I think it

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Speaker 2: makes up about seven or eight percent of the territory

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Speaker 2: GDP last steps that I looked at, so it is

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Speaker 2: pretty significant in terms of bringing some money into the regions.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, it's a big game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and such a great thing to do. I reckon

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Speaker 1: to get the wider community involved as well, particularly you know.

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Speaker 3: The young kids.

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Speaker 1: I know that kids love it when they get to

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Speaker 1: go on an excursion with school and then getting to

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Speaker 1: go and pick the mangos and take some home as well.

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Speaker 1: I reckon, it's a wonderful initiative.

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Speaker 2: It's brilliant. We really love having the kids out and

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Speaker 2: we love having the wrongelung out too. Not only do

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Speaker 2: they pick the fruits for themselves, they also pick it

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Speaker 2: for communities to support services like women's shelters and croatias,

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Speaker 2: primary schools, aged care centers, so they distribute it wherever

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Speaker 2: they can as well, lighting up everyone's faces wherever they

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Speaker 2: hand out makers.

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Speaker 3: Well, that is awesome, really good stuff.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 1: Department of Agriculture and Fisheries Senior Technical Officer Tiagan Haby,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for your time this morning.

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Speaker 3: Lovely to speak with you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Katie, it was great.

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Speaker 3: Thank you,