India's High Commissioner to Jamaica, Rungsung Masakui, said he would like to grow Jamaica's pineapple in Manipur.
He travelled to St Mary, Jamaica, to see how the MD-2 hybrid variety of pineapples, developed in the Central American country of Costa Rica, is grown.
"I am very impressed with what is happening here, and I will start the process to see if we can collaborate with our people in Manipur state, which is also a pineapple growing area," Masakui told www.jamaicaobserver.com
Masakui said he was further inspired to adopt the measure, following a recent trip to India.
JP Tropical Foods general manager, Honduran Mario Figueroa, along with his assistant Kadine Jordine, a Winston Jones High School graduate who is also pursuing further studies in Costa Rica, and pineapple division supervisor Ikel Grant, led the tour of the 20-hectare pineapple facility at Georgia, which, in the end, left those hitherto ignorant of planting procedures, wide-eyed in amazement.