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Pineapple Fest from February 5 to 7 at Vazhakulam

Kochi, Feb 4(UNI) The Pineapple Farmers Association and the Pineapple Merchants Association in association the Kerala Agriculture Department, Horticulture Mission and Kerala Pineapple Mission would organise ''Pineapple Gest-2016'' at Vazhakulam in Kochi district from February to seven.
Informing this at a news conference here Joseph Vazhakkan, MLA, said that the object of conducting the three-day fest, conducted in association with the Kerala Agriculture University and the Vashakkulam Agro Fruit Processing Company, gaining Global branding for Vazhakkulam pineapple, the best pineapple available in the country.
Pointing out that the aim of organising such a fest, to be inaugurated by Kerala Agriculture Minister K Mohanan, was bring out more value-added products from pineapple.
It was expected that delegates and experts in this frield from Indonesia, Philippines and Thailand would attend the meeting, he said adding that the farmers would interact with them to get their technical know-how and market the value added product vazhakkulam pineapple across the world through them.
''If the talks become successful, the pineapple from Vazhakkulam would export to these countries, in turn they will produce value added products and branded under the name of Vazhakkulam pineapple,'' he said claiming that it would help the farmers to get good price to their produce.
Pointing out that pineapple was being cultivated on about 14000 hectares in the state and yielding around 350 lakh tone of pineapple, he said the farmers, both the small and large scale, in the area were earning a sum of Rs 750 crore annually.
''The fest also aims to bring out more value-added products from pineapple in order to tide over the problems faced by the pineapple farmers sin the state,'' M Vazhakkan added.
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