Pineapple
Growers Must
Confront
Environmental
Criticism
Procomer (Costa
Rica's export
promotion
agency) declared
that exports of
pineapple from
Costa Rica
reached us$572
million in 2009,
a similar figure
to 2008. However
according to the
guild of
pineapple
growers (CANAPEP)
exports
increased about
5%.
From 2000 to
2009 the area
harvested with
pineapples
increased from
12500 to 40500
hectares,
respectively.
However, this
impressive
increase is not
free of
criticism.
Environmentalists
argue that
natural reserves
have been
affected by
settlers and
advise further
control of the
increase in
cultivated
areas.
Benefits in the
pineapple
business have
shown a
motivation to
people from
other sectors to
reconvert to
production.
However as
authorities
warn, there is
also a logistic
problem,
sometimes the
infrastructure
is surpassed by
the supply and
costs to export
increase.
Growers have to
think if they
want really to
take this risk,
said
authorities.
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