First sunburn, then rain: now pineapple growers hope for upturn in volumes and demand
A small group of KwaZulu-Natal pineapple growers supply the whole of South Africa with fresh pineapples. In Hluhluwe, Queen pineapples are produced on dryland fields for 52 weeks of the year with an average annual yield of around 47 million kg of pineapples.
“Over the past twenty years our pineapple production has almost doubled because of improved cultivation
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