Hot weather forces an Australian pineapple farmer to re-adjust his growing strategy
A leading Australian pineapple grower has made the decision to move production of the fruit out of the Northern Territory indefinitely because the hot weather is affecting yields.
Piñata Farms Managing Director Gavin Scurr says supply will be made up at the company s other two farms in Queensland: Wamuran and Mareeba. Over the past few summers, it s been tough. This one was a better one, there was a bit less heat, but the ones before that were pretty brutal, Mr Scurr said. We ve stopped planting pineapples for the time being. When we came over to Darwin, we stopped expanding because we didn t want an oversupply. So now we have ramped up plantings in Southern Queensland to cover what we used to do up here. The demand for pineapples has been interesting with COVID-19, with the fruit being a good immune booster and people understanding the health benefits more and more. It all comes down to people