Deputy Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Nguyen Trung Tin approved stopping expansion of 400 new hectares for planting Cayen pineapple on March 16.
According to Ho Chi Minh City Plant Co, if farmers continue to expand planting Cayen pineapple, they will lose VND2.7 billion ($166,000) per hectare as costs have increased 90 percent.
Cayen pineapple was imported from Thailand in 2003. The yield of the first crop is more than 40 tons per hectare.
Cayen pineapple, which has been widely in provinces near HCM City, yields harvests around the year instead of only one annual crop due to new technology applied in 2006. The south-eastern region of the country is capable of growing at least 10,000 hectares of Cayen pineapple.
The Southern Fruit Research Institute said it will work with southern provinces to preserve and develop Cayen Pineapple varieties for further export and domestic consumption.
The Mekong River delta provinces are now growing more than 22,000 hectares of Cayen pineapple, mostly in Kien Giang, Tien Giang and Long An provinces.
