Like any other cash crops, pineapple has also found a place in the soils of Manipur and the state is also becoming the safe breeding ground for it. Without any exageration, pineapple production in the sate has outdone any other fruits production. Over the years, its popularity too has been nagging the hearts of pineapple lovers of the state.

Economically, the fruit has also become the backbone of a sizeable section of farmers who have been cultivating it as their major source of income. It has, interestingly, helped in keeping the ceaseless burning of many hearths of the state. Despite the lack of technical know-how to improve its production and preservation of the produces, numerous farmers' success stories have been scripted with a span of six decades since it was first cultivated in 1947.

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