PETALING JAYA: A new high-quality hybrid pineapple, known as the MS16, has been introduced by the Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (Mardi).
Mardi director-general Datuk Dr Mohamad Zabawi Abdul Ghani said the initiative to develop this new variety of pineapple follows the high per capita consumption of pineapples among Malaysians, which is at 12.2kg per year, against the backdrop of low import dependency rate (IDR) of 0.2%.
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