I want to know how mango dispersed from its country of origin (India) to other countries? By what means?

Question

I want to know how mango dispersed from its country of origin (India) to other countries? By what means?

Answer 1

The explorers who tasted the mango were enchanted with its aromatic qualities, ambrosial flavor, and creamy, smooth, and silky texture and introduced the fruit to other tropical countries, such as, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines where it has had successful cultivation.

Chinese traveler Hwen T'sang visited India in the first half of the seventh century AD and took the mango back to his home. The Chinese were delighted and began cultivating the magnificent evergreen tree

The seventh century caliphs of Baghdad enjoyed their mangoes in the form of a complex brew that that required six months to a year to fully ferment. The traveling mango then hitched a camel ride from Persia and caravaned to the African continent about the year1,000.

Mangoes were first recorded in Europe by Friar Jordanus in 1328, but Europeans didn't fall in love with them as did countries with tropical climates. Although mangoes are the world's third largest food crop today, they still remain obscure in Europe.

During the 16th century  Portuguese explorers carried the mango to East and West Africa and Brazil. By the eighteenth century the West Indies had met the engaging mango. The mango received its original name "mancay or mangay" that later evolved into manga by the Portuguese.

Hawaii, Florida, and Mexico were next on the nineteenth century travel plans for this tropical wonder. Though Florida was growing mangoes on the East Coast in 1825, it wasn't until 1889 that the USDA introduced a special grafted variety from India called Mulgoa or Mulgoba. The Haden variety, developed from the original Mulgoba, has been described as "rich, sweet and spicy, with flesh of melting texture and free of objectionable fibers."

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Answer 2

wind birds and insect can carry the seeds of plants mango like that

Answer 3

travellers from various other countries visited India even in the ancient times...it was through these visitors that the world came to know about  the various fruits (and other crops) that grew on the Indian soil.

for instance, when ibn batuta visited India, he didn't even  know what's a mango..... but was facinated by it's taste when he had one....