[EBOOK] Pineapple production in Fiji (Trainers guide), Aad Van Santen and Kyle Stice

To be successful in pineapple cropping, the farmer has to be serious and fully committed to the crop, since this crop requires a continuous and intensive care over the entire cropping period. This cropping period with pineapple is generally quite longer than other roots crops or vegetables (a pineapple plant crop can take up to 24 months to come into production while vegetables such as cabbage or tomato take only 1-3 months).

Pineapple being a slow developing plant is easily over grown by weeds and can be completely destroyed or, if not too long over grown and cleaned at least loses a number of month’s growth time as well as producing lower yields. Continual weed control in pineapple cropping is an absolute necessity (chemical spray control as well as hand weeding several times per year.) Total crop failure is to be expected if the fields are neglected for a number of months.

Furthermore the farmer is required to have patience, since a pineapple crop takes 1 to 2 years before yielding a marketable harvest.

What to expect from pineapple cropping

From a 1 ha producing area (= 50,000 plants), with 1/3 under Plant Crop (PC), 1/3 under 1st Ratoon crop (1st R), and 1/3 under 2nd Ratoon crop (2nd R), a good farmer can realize the following harvest of marketable fruit;

-    for PC between 75-85% of planted crop,

which equals between 12,500 and 14,165 fruits 1/3 ha,

-    and for 1st R between 56% to 72% from the planted crop

which equals between 9,400 and 12,000 fruits 1/3 ha,

-    and for 2nd R between 43% or 61% from planted crop,

which equals between 7,100 and 10,200 fruits 1/3 ha.

The declining results in harvest allow for a number of plants;

•    not growing well,

•    not fruiting,

•    malformed fruit,

•    rat or other rodent damage,

•    sunburn damage.

The lower results are to be expected for less optimum performance farming, such as a late weeding or reduced fertilizer application, whereas the higher results can be expected from optimum performing farming practices.

[EBOOK] Pineapple production in Fiji (Trainers guide), Aad Van Santen and Kyle Stice

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