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  2. Maui Land & Pineapple Company - Wikipedia

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    Maui Pineapple Company, Ltd. (MPC) was the United States' largest grower of Hawaiian pineapples. MPC began in 1909 as the Keahua Ranch Company, Ltd, and became the Maui Pineapple Company in 1932 . MPC cultivated and processed approximately 2,000 acres (8.1 km 2) of a hybrid variety of pineapple known as "Maui Gold." It operated Kapalua Farms ...

  3. Pineapple - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. James Dole - Wikipedia

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    James Drummond Dole (September 27, 1877 – May 20, 1958), the "Pineapple King", was an American industrialist who developed the pineapple industry in Hawaii.He established the Hawaiian Pineapple Company (HAPCO) which was later reorganized to become the Dole Food Company that operates in over 90 countries.

  5. Sugar plantations in Hawaii - Wikipedia

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    The industry was tightly controlled by descendants of missionary families and other businessmen, concentrated in corporations known in Hawaiʻi as "The Big Five". [2] These included Castle & Cooke, Alexander & Baldwin, C. Brewer & Co., H. Hackfeld & Co. (later named American Factors (now Amfac)) and Theo H. Davies & Co., [11] which together eventually gained control over other aspects of the ...

  6. Henry Gabriel Ginaca - Wikipedia

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    Official patent drawing of the Ginaca machine. Henry Gabriel Ginaca (May 19, 1876 – October 19, 1918) was an American engineer who invented, at the direction of Hawaii pineapple magnate James Dole, a machine that could peel and core pineapples automatically called the Ginaca machine.

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  8. Agriculture in Hawaii - Wikipedia

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    According to the Hawaii Agricultural Statistics Service, agricultural sales were US$370.9 million from diversified agriculture, US$100.6 million from pineapple, and US$64.3 million from sugarcane. Hawaii's relatively consistent climate has attracted the seed industry, which is able to test three generations of crops per year on the islands ...

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