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Pineapple is native to the South American Tropics and was widely introduced elsewhere during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The crop is now widely grown throughout the tropics and subtropics. The international pineapple canning industry is based on plantations in Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia and north Sumatra as well as in Hawaii, Brazil, Taiwan, South Africa, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Mexico and Puerto Rico.

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