Pineapple production in Nluzon gets boost

SANTA ANA, Cagayan: For many years, farmers in this coastal town would plant row after row of pineapple plantlets across small area of land. They manually weed and fertilize them every three or four weeks, and wait.

After a year later, Santa Ana pineapple farmers particularly in the Cagayan Freeport found crops of diseased plants instead of the plump, juicy, sweet fruit they expected.