Turkey’s leading aid provider, the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA), is lending a hand to Guineans in improving their production of pineapples, a main source of income for farmers in the West African nation. In rural areas of Kindia, the country’s fourth-largest city, the agency has cleared 100Continue Reading
Taronga’s Western Plains Zoo is trucking in pineapple plants from a farm 900 kilometres away to help feed its elephants as the drought bites hard in New South Wales. The Dubbo-based attraction sourced the nutritious spiky plants from south-east Queensland’s Piñata Farms, which has been supplying them to itsContinue Reading
The Nyeri government is exploring the possibility of introducing pineapple farming in the county. The move is aimed at improving food and nutritional security, boost farmers’ income and diversify from traditional cash crops such as coffee and tea. Agriculture executive James Muturi on Monday said the governmentContinue Reading
A total of 282 participants – including growers, extension workers, researchers, government officers, input suppliers, NGOs, and the private sector – attended the seminar on Current Development and Challenges in Improving Production, Productivity, and Market Demand for the MD2 Pineapple Variety on 11 July 2019 at the Tan Sri YusofContinue Reading
The Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) has handed over two million pineapple suckers to two farmers in the eastern region of Ghana under the second phase of its pineapple supply base expansion program. The ceremonial handing over to two of the county’s major pineapple exporters, Riverside Farms and OhuContinue Reading
The Ormoc City government staged its third Piña Festival on Sunday (June 23) to promote its main agriculture produce, pineapple. Eight contingents coming from various schools in the city took part in contests that featured pineapple-themed costumes. The STI College of Ormoc won the top prize ofContinue Reading
The Johor State Executive Council has approved the Green Revolution Project for the Development of Johor Unused Land which will see acreage under government agencies planted with crops like the MD2 pineapple and starfruit. Islamic Religious Affairs, Agriculture and Rural Development Committee chairman, Tosrin Jarvanthi, said: “This is aContinue Reading
The horticulture department of Tripura on Tuesday stated that in the last one month the state has supplied 172 lakh pieces of pineapple weighing 193.10 MT to different parts of India and Bangladesh. The pineapples supplied from Tripura also included 113 MT of the world class ‘Queen’ variety.Continue Reading
The International Tropical Fruits Network (TFNet) is leading a seminar titled Current Development and Challenges in Improving Production, Productivity, and Market Demand for the MD2 Pineapple Variety on 11 July 2019 at the Tan Sri Yusof Hashim Hall, MARDI, Serdang, Selangor, co-organized with the Malaysian Pineapple Industry Board (MPIB), the MalaysianContinue Reading
Fyffes has launched its ‘Pineapple Bar’ in a number of Dunnes Stores outlets, offering customers freshly chopped pineapple in seconds. The company’s pineapple-to-go machine claims to chop the fruit into bite-sized pieces in 20 seconds, with customers able to take it away in a compostable tub. ItContinue Reading
A Thai brand of frozen peeled pineapples rumoured to contain cyclamic acid has not been imported into Singapore, said the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) on Tuesday (May 28). In a Facebook post, SFA said it was aware of a “circulating message” alleging that the Dragon King brand ofContinue Reading
Tripura shares an 856-km international border with Bangladesh most of which is fenced off except in a few patches in Sepahijala and Dhalai districts. The increased border vigilance has given a fillip to legal export-import in the last few years. Tripura exported its first consignment of queen pineappleContinue Reading
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