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Farm families in Uganda are being trained to go organic, in a bid to boost their incomes from the production of pineapples on their small-farms.<\/p>\n

An exclusively \u2018small-holder crop\u2019 in the East African country, there is huge potential for pineapple production in the country, as both the soil and climatic conditions are favourable to growing the edible, tropical fruit.<\/p>\n

Close to 300 rural families in the Mubende District of Central Uganda are being assisted by Self Help Africa with production and marketing, and encouraged to apply organic farming techniques so that they can receive a higher price for their fruit.<\/p>\n

The farmers, organised into six producer groups, have been linked with a Kampala-based fruit exporter and processor, who is selling both fresh and dried fruit to domestic markets, and for export to Kenya, South Sudan, the Middle East and Germany.<\/p>\n

Growers are currently paid between 25 cents and 40 cents for each pineapple that they grow, but could earn significantly more than that for an entirely organic product.<\/p>\n

Buyers of the raw pineapples recently opened discussions with the producer groups, with a view to establishing solar driers for the fruit, as a means of adding value to the fruit that the farmers have to sell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pineapple growers in Uganda are developing markets and going organic so that they will earn more from selling their fruit.<\/p>\n Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[637,678,683],"tags":[716,571,715,714,246],"class_list":["post-3405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uganda","category-video","tag-added-value","tag-farm","tag-fruit","tag-pineapple","tag-uganda"],"yoast_head":"\nOrganic benefit for pineapple producers - Self Help Africa UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Pineapple farmers in Uganda are being supported to go organic, so that they can earn more from their fruit.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/pineapple\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Organic benefit for pineapple producers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pineapple farmers in Uganda are being supported to go organic, so that they can earn more from their fruit.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/pineapple\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Self Help Africa UK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SelfHelpAfrica\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-01-19T17:28:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-12-21T16:21:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/01\/pineapple850.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"850\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"527\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Self Help Africa\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@comms\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@selfhelpafrica\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Self Help Africa\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/pineapple\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/pineapple\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Self Help Africa\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/#\/schema\/person\/ef27df5dc9e961797418d7a8bf315404\"},\"headline\":\"Organic benefit for pineapple producers\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-01-19T17:28:22+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-12-21T16:21:35+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/pineapple\/\"},\"wordCount\":207,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/pineapple\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/01\/pineapple850.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"added value\",\"farm\",\"fruit\",\"pineapple\",\"Uganda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"News\",\"Uganda\",\"video\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/pineapple\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/pineapple\/\",\"name\":\"Organic benefit for pineapple producers - 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