MD2 Pineapple Suckers/Seedling
Good quality pineapple come from good planting material. Some of the factor should be consider during selecting planting material are as follows:-
1. Variety (Ensure the best sell-able variety selected)
2. Type (Suckers/Tissue Culture/Crown) Tips!: Suckers has a great survival percentage on the field.
3. Quantity available (Sufficient for the area prepared)
4. Size (Bigger is better)
5. Source (Reliable and have good track record)
6. Price (One of investment which need to be compare with the return) Tips!: Consider payback period, number of suckers to be produced, margin, fruit and suckers market price in the future.
MD2 Pineapple Maturity Index
There are a lot of pineapple maturity guidelines nowadays, basically we measure our MD2 pineapple maturity/ripeness as above after the fruit reach maturity level. We divide the maturity index from 1 to 5. Each maturity stage determined by their golden colour appearance from bottom to the top.
Index 1
Suitable for fresh export purpose especially which take 7-20 days transit time.
Index 2
Suitable for fresh export purpose (<7 days transit time) and domestic market.
Index 3
Suitable for fresh domestic market and great for immediate consumption.
Index 4
Still Suitable for fresh domestic market.
Index 5
Too matured to be traded for fresh but still good for juice production.
Do you have any idea how many days you can receive your product? This is an indication table if you are importing product from us where we use Tanjung Pelepas Port as a port of loading. This table prepared are base on current (1/1/2011) schedule provided on respective liner. For more detail, you can contact us or visit respective liner via their website link as provided here under 'RELATED LINK' on the right side.
