PINEAPPLE SQUARED
Wastage May Be Less (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) SYDNEY, April ‘29. After five years of intensive research and cross-breeding. Government fruit experts have come up with a square pineapple. The break-through will save many thousands of pounds in labour costs and cut wastage in the pineapple canning industry. This is because the conventional round-shouldered pineapple poses problems of economic peeling and coring. Too much of the flesh is lost in processing the roundshouldered type.
The new-look pineapple, produced by the Tropical Fruit Research Station at Alstonville, near Lismore, in northern N.S.W., is the endproduct of experimentation with 25,000 pineapple plants. The manager of the research station, Mr D. S. Leigh, said today it would take five years to produce the new, square-shouldered type in commercial quantities.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30738, 30 April 1965, Page 11
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