Do pineapple need direct sunlight? Can we intercrop with Banana or areca or Coconut(I know a farm has done in coconut grove but many plants did not yeild).
What is the life span of sinlge plantation? I heard we can harvest 5 to 6 fruits/plant.
What are the common pests and desiease and how it can be controlled organically?
What is the row/column spacing?
What are the different verieties(sweetest).
If I want to prepare suckers from seeds, is it possible? Can we transplant?
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Sure guys, but looking at it closer, at Rs. 5 a fruit in retail, and 20t/acre at the end of its long crop duration, it does not seem to be immensely profitable?
Haii Chandra,
“Rs.5 a Fruit in retail” ? Are you serious ? I believe the procurement rate at wholesale mandis should be anywhere in between 15-20 a Kilo. Just imagine, if it is so cheap as you quoted, how will it be feasible for traders to bring it all the way from Kerala through out the year.
Even the local variety in I mentioned earlier is fetching nothing less than Rs.10 - 12 a fruit at shandies for the farmer. That too in the deep interior tribal areas.
Hi Farmnest Folks,
as a typical urbanite, i do not have much info about pineapple cultivation, but my friends and relatives in Malanad region grow it well. Pineapple is a relative of kattale plant (Kannada name), so it obviously quite drought hardy. While it grows well in arid regions, i was surprised to see that Banavasi, a small town deep inside Malanad region in Karnataka grows it extensively.
Abdul Rauf Abdulkarim Shaikh popularly called as, the “Pineapple king of Banavasi” cultivates pineapple, banana, papaya and pepper in his 300 acres.
The University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS), Dharwad, Karnataka, conferred the doctorate on Mr. Shaikh, for his pioneering work in pineapple and pepper by adopting latest technologies.
That came as a surprise to me when I heard it too. I understand loads of pineapple are brought and sold on horsebacks at Rs. 5 a fruit. The fruits are supposed to be small in this case, but all said, that is not more than 10-20 per kg whichever way we look at it. At 20t/acre, that would be 2-4 L gross after a full year - not bad, not great?