A dozen mangoes for Rs 18,000? Sounds ludicrous, doesn’t it? That is the price mango cultivators Uttam Phondekar and his father Abba received for the first box of the season’s Devgad Alphonso mangoes they sold in the Pune market, some days ago. The Devgad Alphonso, which is harvested in November, fetches a much higher price than that sold in the traditional mango season from April till June. In all, the Phondekars have sold 10 dozens in the first lot that has left their mango orchard in Kumbharmath village, in Sidhudurg district of Maharashtra.