ISHS Acta Horticulturae 529: III International Pineapple Symposium
THE HAWAIIAN PINEAPPLE INDUSTRY |
| Author: | K. G. Rohrbach |
| Keywords: | Hawaiian industry |
| Abstract:
While Hawaii was the centre of world commercial pineapple production and technology in the first half of the twentieth century, its proportion of the world production has declined steadily. During the past 15 years, the Hawaiian pineapple industry has gone through a significant downsizing and restructuring beginning with the closure of the Del Monte cannery in 1985, and changing its products from canned to fresh market. According to the latest Statistics of Hawaiian Agriculture total fruit tonnage dropped from 884,000 in 1960 to 347,000 in 1996. Productivity measured as yield/gross acre/year increased from 11.8 tons in 1960 to 17.3 tons in 1996. The Hawaiian pineapple industry currently represents the second most important agricultural industry in the State with a 1996 annual farm gate value of $95,914,000 and a cultivated area of approximately 20,000 acres. The total value including fresh market and processed (farm gate plus value added) is approximately $135,000,000. | |
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