Growth and instability of pineapple production in Manipur, India

Abstract

The present study was undertaken to study the trends of area, production and productivity of pineapple in Manipur. The study was based on the secondary data from 2001 to 2011. To analyze the trend of area, production and productivity of pineapple in Manipur, semi log linear functional form was used. Beside these, compound growth rate and instability index was also estimated. The effect of area, production and their interaction towards increasing production were also estimated in the present study. The instability indices for area, production and productivity of pineapple crop in Manipur were positive there by indicating less risk for growing pineapple in the State.

INFLUENCE OF PROCESS PARAMETERS ON CELLULASE PRODUCTION BY Trichoderma viride (MTCC 800) EMPLOYING SOLID STATE FERMENTATION

“…indicates that pineapple production has a growth rate the extent of 3.6% and it was statistically significant. The findings of the study were in line with the previous research bySingh et al (2016) who reported that the production of pineapple in Manipur has a significant positive growth rate.…”

A Bio-refinery Approach from Pineapple in the Context of Non-Technified Crops: The Choco-Colombian Region

“…The objective of this contribution is to delineate a pineapple biorefinery that eventually adapts to the geographic and cultural conditions of a specific region of Colombia (the Choco-Colombia region), where the pineapple crop is centralized in small farms for local consumption and not in large technical conglomerates, so in many cases the production of fruits does not reach export quality (at least for fresh consumption). This situation is not only characteristic of the Choco-Colombia region, but also occurs in several areas dedicated to the cultivation of pineapples worldwide (Nanda et al, 2012;Singh et al, 2016). The differences in the expected quality of the fruit of both production schemes can be deduced from Fig 4.…”

“…According to Reinhardt and Rodriguez (2009), several factors must be considered when adding value to pineapples through agro industrial processing: the integration of the producer and the processing industry, the type of fruit variety compared to the application, the product portfolio, the processing technology, the logistics, marketing and longterm planning, among others. Even the socio-economic status of pineapple growers (Dickson et al, 2002;Nanda et al, 2012) as well as trends related with growth and instability of pineapple production (Singh et al, 2016) should be considered. As an example of the above, it could be obvious that for a technically grown pineapple crop with a high production volume, it can be assumed the sufficient availability of pineapple crowns to justify a sugar recovery unit such as the one included in the biorefinery scheme in Fig 2b, but for the cultivation of pineapple in small and nontechnical farms, the collection of pineapple crowns can represent economic costs that limit its viability and may be more appropriate to use the crowns as a supplement for animal feed or to obtain fibers in a small-scale production.…”

An Analysis of Constraints Faced by the Farmers and Intermediaries in Cultivation and Value Addition of Pineapple in Manipur State

“…Farmers totally depended on rainfall for irrigation. The sample areas was located in the hilly region of Manipur, it was very difficult to arrange for irrigation facilities [10][11][12].…”