Twins Bearing Pineapple

In times past planting of pineapple in our community was not seen as a business, but in recent years many farmers started to plant the crop for sale. In my community Pineapple is now being reckoned as one of the cash crops in Nigeria. ASACEI is warming up to join the race with a difference, perhaps.

Areas to research and exploit to stand out in Pineapple production are unfolding as business progresses. The picture above is self explanatory, but the technology behind it is inexplicable as it is purely a rare natural occurrence. Traditionally we are used to one fruit per Pineapple stand, until nature sprang this surprise of having a twins Pineapple fruits on a parent. My attention was drawn to this in his farm by our Production Manager who has been in the Pineapple business for sometime now. This calls for research! Who is going to bail the cat? Nature has just posed this challenge to us, and we wish to rise to the occasion, though we lack the necessary fallibilities to embark on such research as to know why and how in order to implement it in our project. We now know it could be so but are asking, “How can it be?” We throw this challenge open to Biologist, Agriculturists, and researchers, to come to our aid to harness this natural phenomenon to a scientific concept to be practised by man. For us it will be a good way of boosting production to maximize profit, which is the vision of our farming enterprise.

Another side attraction is the number of suckers on one of the fruits. Look closely and you will see that it is up to six suckers. If planted, would the suckers behave like their parent? We ought to find out. This suggests multiplication of suckers. Observe other suckers on the parent Pineapple. Having observed and noticed all this happening, if we can make them happen, we can control events in the business and economic environments, for our own good. If you can answer the “why and how” come the twins Pineapple fruits, please we need your assistance. We wish to move from either worshipping what is inexplicable or ignoring it, to researching and exploiting its potential, which pays off.

It could be recalled that through research, we have found out how to prompt Pineapple to fruit earlier and in uniform. We have negotiated for this technology from other farmers who got the idea before, as they cannot share the experience free of charge. After all, there is no free launch, they say.