Farmers have now started growing pineapple as a commercial crop. Now farming has started in the hilly and extremely hot areas as well as in the plain areas like Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. If you can do farming then pineapple farming can be a good profitable farming for you. The special thing is that it can be cultivated several times in a year.
Pineapple is one of the important commercial fruit crops of India. Pineapple is grown in abundance in the North-Eastern region, Kerala, Karnataka, West Bengal, Bihar, Goa and Maharashtra. The total annual production of pineapple is estimated to be 14.6 million tonnes. With an annual production of 1.2 million tonnes, India is the fifth largest producer of pineapple in the world. India accounts for 8.2% of the world's total pineapple production. Thailand, Philippines, Brazil, Nigeria, Mexico, Indonesia, Colombia and the United States are other important producers of pineapple.
Which is grown in about one third of the world. The main season for growing pineapples in India is from July to September, and the crop takes about 18 to 24 months to grow sufficiently for harvesting. Pineapple is a tropical plant that thrives in humid conditions. It thrives in the plains and at an altitude of less than 900 meters.
Pineapple cultivation is limited to heavy rainfall and humid coastal areas in peninsular India and hilly locations in the northeastern regions. With moderate rainfall and supplementary irrigation, it can be cultivated economically even in interior schemes.
Pineapples are available in various shapes and sizes and are cultivated throughout the world. Most of the commercial varieties of pineapple grown in India are Cave, Giant Cave, Queen, Mauritius, Jaldhup and Lakhat. The queen among these varieties, Vishal Kev/Kev is grown extensively in the northeastern parts of India and is preferred by fruit juice manufacturers.
are beginning to grow in season
Dr. SK Singh is telling through TV 9 Digital. The pineapple season in India is from July to December in major pineapple producing states like Meghalaya, Kerala, Assam, Tripura, Manipur and others.
The pineapple plant is not tolerant of extremely high temperatures or frost. Pineapple flowers can develop off-season fruit between February and April and bear fruit between September and December
Cave, Mauritius and Rani are also the most cultivated varieties of pineapple in Tamil Nadu.