2026 Indian Mango Crop Update: Alphonso & Totapuri Market Trends

A Tale of Two Mangoes: Why 2026 Is Shaping Up to Be a Buyer’s Season in India

Walk into any mango orchard in Maharashtra right now and ask the farmer how the season went, and you’ll get a shrug and a smile – smaller fruit, but sweeter than they’ve tasted in years. Walk into a Totapuri processing belt in Andhra Pradesh or Karnataka, and the mood is different: processors are still sitting on unsold pulp and concentrate from last season, and that overhang has kept farmgate prices for fresh fruit flat for the better part of a year.

Same fruit, same country, two completely different stories. And for global buyers of mango pulp, puree, concentrate, and IQF product, understanding both halves of that story is the difference between sourcing well this year and missing a window that may not stay open for long.

Here’s what’s happening on the ground – and why it matters for your procurement plan.

Alphonso Mango: A Short, Hot Season That Quietly Improved the Fruit

India’s most prized mango variety had an unusual year. The season opened around the first week of May and wrapped up by early June – noticeably shorter than the typical run. The western growing belts that define Alphonso quality came in with a lighter harvest than usual.

The reason was heat. An unusually warm stretch through the growing period meant the fruit didn’t get the size it normally would. But here’s the twist that matters for anyone formulating with Alphonso: less water and more heat concentrates the sugars, pushing Brix levels up and giving the fruit noticeably better flavour intensity than recent seasons. Smaller fruit, better fruit – a trade-off most processors will happily take.

On price, the season told its own story. Alphonso opened strong at around ₹30/kg, then eased back to ₹23-25/kg as the early-season buying frenzy cooled. One thing worth flagging for anyone benchmarking purée pricing against fruit cost: the two don’t move in lockstep. Blended Alphonso products are widely available in the market, and that creates a much wider spread in puree pricing across suppliers than raw fruit prices alone would suggest. If a quote looks unusually low, it’s worth asking what’s actually in the drum.

What’s on the shelf: Alphonso Mango Puree, Organic Alphonso Mango Puree, and Alphonso IQF chunks and slices.

Totapuri Mango: The Quiet Story That’s Actually the Bigger Opportunity

If Alphonso is the headline variety, Totapuri is the workhorse – and this year it’s where the real sourcing story lives.

The Totapuri harvest got underway around June 5 and runs through mid-July. The crop itself is smaller than last year. Normally, a smaller crop alone would be enough to push farmgate prices up. It hasn’t – and the reason is carryover. Processors are still sitting on meaningful unsold pulp and concentrate inventory from the previous season, and that overhang, combined with softer demand both domestically and globally, has kept a lid on what processors are willing to pay for fresh fruit, even with less of it coming in.

Raw Totapuri is trading at ₹5-6/kg – essentially flat with last year. For farmers, that’s been a genuinely difficult season, with real financial distress in growing regions and government intervention stepping in in some areas to support prices. For processors, it’s meant running at roughly half of installed capacity, as existing stock and slower offtake limit how much fresh fruit is worth bringing in.

For buyers, though, this combination is unusually favourable. Because raw material costs are consistent across regions right now, there’s little room for wild price variation between processors – what you see is largely what you get, supplier to supplier. And because prices are already sitting near the floor, the downside risk of buying now and watching the market drop further is limited.

What’s on the shelf: Totapuri Mango Puree, Totapuri Mango Concentrate, Organic Totapuri Mango Puree and Concentrate, and Totapuri IQF dices, chunks, and slices.

Reading the Two Stories Together

Put the two varieties side by side and the picture for 2026 is unusually clean: Alphonso gives you a quality story – smaller crop, better fruit, a shorter window to lock in. Totapuri gives you a price and reliability story – a market that’s bottomed out, supply that’s steady, and processors with the spare capacity to move fast on new orders.

That’s a rare combination. Most seasons force buyers to choose between paying up for quality or settling for inconsistency at the low end. 2026 is offering both ends of that trade at the same time, in the same country.

ABC Fruits Product Portfolio

ABC Fruits continues to offer a wide range of mango-based products:

Purees & Concentrates

• Alphonso Mango Puree (16° Brix)
• Totapuri Mango Puree (14° Brix)
• Totapuri Mango Concentrate (28° Brix)
• Organic Alphonso Mango Puree (16° Brix)
• Organic Totapuri Mango Puree (14° Brix)
• Organic Totapuri Mango Concentrate (28° Brix)
• Alphonso–Totapuri blends

IQF & Cut Products

• Alphonso chunks & slices
• Totapuri Slices & dices (various sizes)

Packaging Built for However You Buy

Whichever variety – and whichever form – fits your formulation, the packaging is built to match how global buyers actually operate:

• Aseptic drums (200+ kg)
• Bag-in-box (20 kg)
• Frozen packs (1–3 kg) for smaller-volume or trial orders.
• Cans (3.1 kg and 850 g)
• Retail & custom packaging

IQF Mango:

• 10 kg cartons
• 4 × 2.5kg bags-in-carton
• Custom retail packaging from 400g up to 1kg for private-label and direct-to-retail needs.

Global stock availability is supported through warehouses in the USA, Europe, and Asia.

The Window Won’t Stay Open Indefinitely

Markets like this don’t last because they’re permanent – they last because the conditions that created them (carryover stock working its way down, demand gradually firming, processors recalibrating capacity) are themselves temporary. Totapuri’s price floor is a function of today’s inventory overhang; as that clears through the season, the calculus changes. Alphonso’s quality-at-volume window closes simply because the harvest is done.

For buyers planning mango pulp, purée, concentrate, or IQF sourcing for the year ahead, the practical takeaway is straightforward: this is a season to move on, not one to wait out.
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ABC Fruits processes and exports Alphonso and Totapuri mango products – purée, concentrate, and IQF – to over 80 countries, backed by FSSC 22000, USDA/EU Organic, Halal, Kosher, and FDA certifications. To discuss sourcing for the 2026 season or request samples and a current price list, get in touch with our export team.