{"id":10366,"date":"2011-07-20T08:30:54","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T12:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=10366"},"modified":"2011-07-26T12:59:46","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T16:59:46","slug":"baic-boosts-pineapple-industry-throughout-bahamas-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/07\/baic-boosts-pineapple-industry-throughout-bahamas-islands","title":{"rendered":"Pineapple Industry Boosted Throughout Bahamas Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10367\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10367\" style=\"width: 486px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10367 \" title=\"Pineapples\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/chairman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/chairman.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/chairman-150x69.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/chairman-250x115.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10367\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BAIC executive chairman Edison M. Key and his team show off pineapple plants headed for the islands. Pictured from left are assistant general manager (agriculture) Arnold Dorsett, Mr. Key, Lucayan Tropical manager Tim Hauber, and BAIC general manager Benjamin Rahming. (BIS Photo\/Derek Smith)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bahamas Agricultural and Industrial Corporation (BAIC) has started distribution of 5,000 tissue cultured sweet cayenne pineapple slips throughout the islands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an initiative to stimulate the Bahamian pineapple industry by introducing a better variety,\u201d said BAIC assistant general manager (agriculture) Arnold Dorsett.<\/p>\n<p>BAIC is headed by South Abaco Member of Parliament, Edison M. Key.<\/p>\n<p>The slips were imported and hardened at Nassau\u2019s Lucayan Tropical hydroponics farm.<\/p>\n<p>Already 2,500 have been sent to Andros, Abaco, Grand Bahama, Exuma, Eleuthera, Long Island, Mayaguana, and San Salvador.<\/p>\n<p>Included in the second distribution are the Andros Plant Propagation Centre, the Abaco Farmers Co-operative Society, Cat Island, and major pineapple growers in Eleuthera, Long Island, Crooked Island and Rum Cay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe slips were received in excellent condition,\u201d said Mr Dorsett. \u201cFarmers may set them out right away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He encouraged farmers to use black plastic mulch so weed would not compete with the pineapple plants for nutrients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFarmers who have grown pineapples should know what to do,\u201d he said. \u201cNew growers are asked to contact the Ministry of Agriculture, BAIC, or seasoned farmers on how to properly manage pineapple slips.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Compared with the native variety, sweet cayenne pineapples grow larger, do not have the spiny tops, and they are bred to be sweeter, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Presently, this variety is imported from Costa Rica and sold in the food stores.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we could produce them we would not have to import them,\u201d said Mr Dorsett.<\/p>\n<p>Pineapple plants produce up to eight baby plants which can be replanted as next season\u2019s crops.<\/p>\n<p>BAIC\u2019s next initiative is the distribution of fruit trees \u2013 avocado, mango, sour sop, guava, and Persian lime.<\/p>\n<p>By Gladstone Thurston<br \/>\nBahamas Information Services<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahamas Agricultural and Industrial Corporation (BAIC) has started distribution of 5,000 tissue cultured sweet cayenne pineapple slips throughout the islands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23,59],"class_list":["post-10366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-food","tag-islands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}