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This is a list of countries by pineapple production from 2016 to 2022, based on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. [1] The estimated total world production for pineapples in 2022 was 29,361,138 metric tonnes , an increase of 2.3% from 28,714,479 tonnes in 2021. [ 1 ]
The most famous investor was James Dole, who moved to Hawaii in 1899 [44] and started a 24-hectare (60-acre) pineapple plantation in 1900 which would grow into the Dole Food Company. [45] Dole and Del Monte began growing pineapples on the island of Oahu in 1901 and 1917, respectively, and the Maui Pineapple Company began cultivation on Maui in ...
Pineapple Indonesia Philippines Costa Rica Brazil China: Gooseberry Russia Ukraine United Kingdom Switzerland Kyrgyzstan: Lemon and lime India Mexico China Argentina Brazil: Raspberry Russia Mexico Serbia Poland United States: Plum and sloe China Romania Serbia Chile Turkey: Strawberry China United States Turkey Egypt Iraq
Rank Country/Region Fruit production (tonnes) 1 People's Republic of China 242,793,824 2 India 105,971,127 3 Brazil 39,758,842 4 Turkey 24,153,128 5 Mexico 23,837,562
These plantations (e.g. Dole, Del Monte, Chiquita) primarily grow bananas, pineapples, sugar, coffee, and ornamental plants. Many crops cultivated through plantation farming are usually genetically modified to improve and hasten growth and increase resistance to pests and diseases.
Pineapple: East of the Andes, from northern South America to northern Argentina. [2] Ananas macrodontes E.Morren: False Pineapple: Coastal Brazil and basins of Parana and Paraguay rivers to northern Argentina. [2]
Only one bromeliad, the pineapple (Ananas comosus), is a commercially important food crop. Bromelain, a common ingredient in meat tenderizer, is extracted from pineapple stems. Many other bromeliads are popular ornamental plants, grown as both garden and houseplants.
Pineapple (Ananas comosus) is a species in the bromeliad family native to tropical America, thought to have long been cultivated by the indigenous Tupi and Guaraní people [1] in the area of what is now known as Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, and Venezuela, with the plant cultivated and distributed from South America to Central America and the Caribbean islands long before the arrival of Europeans.