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    Nanas Pada A Pineapple Variety From Dalat by Jaman Hj. Osman

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    Encik Pada bin Isut discovered the Nanas Pada pineapple variety growing on his farm in Dalat, Sarawak. Nanas Pada has evenly sweet, soft, and juicy fruit. It has since spread from being planted on Encik Pada's farm to other areas in Sarawak. Nanas Pada is a stable natural mutant pineapple variety that is grown for its high quality fruit. It has characteristics such as cylindrical fruit with protruding eyes and ripening from green to brownish red. Optimal cultural practices include using suckers for planting with fertilizer and foliar applications for uniform fruit production. Nanas Pada is responsive to flowering induction and its best harvested fruit have 2-3 rows of brown

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    Encik Pada bin Isut discovered the Nanas Pada pineapple variety growing on his farm in Dalat, Sarawak. Nanas Pada has evenly sweet, soft, and juicy fruit. It has since spread from being planted on Encik Pada's farm to other areas in Sarawak. Nanas Pada is a stable natural mutant pineapple variety that is grown for its high quality fruit. It has characteristics such as cylindrical fruit with protruding eyes and ripening from green to brownish red. Optimal cultural practices include using suckers for planting with fertilizer and foliar applications for uniform fruit production. Nanas Pada is responsive to flowering induction and its best harvested fruit have 2-3 rows of brown

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    Encik Pada bin Isut discovered the Nanas Pada pineapple variety growing on his farm in Dalat, Sarawak. Nanas Pada has evenly sweet, soft, and juicy fruit. It has since spread from being planted on Encik Pada's farm to other areas in Sarawak. Nanas Pada is a stable natural mutant pineapple variety that is grown for its high quality fruit. It has characteristics such as cylindrical fruit with protruding eyes and ripening from green to brownish red. Optimal cultural practices include using suckers for planting with fertilizer and foliar applications for uniform fruit production. Nanas Pada is responsive to flowering induction and its best harvested fruit have 2-3 rows of brown

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    Encik Pada bin Isut discovered the Nanas Pada pineapple variety growing on his farm in Dalat, Sarawak. Nanas Pada has evenly sweet, soft, and juicy fruit. It has since spread from being planted on Encik Pada's farm to other areas in Sarawak. Nanas Pada is a stable natural mutant pineapple variety that is grown for its high quality fruit. It has characteristics such as cylindrical fruit with protruding eyes and ripening from green to brownish red. Optimal cultural practices include using suckers for planting with fertilizer and foliar applications for uniform fruit production. Nanas Pada is responsive to flowering induction and its best harvested fruit have 2-3 rows of brown

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    Nanas Pada a pineapple variety from Dalat

    By
    Jaman Hj. Osman

    Pada pineapple is the name given by the Department of Agriculture to a


    variety of pineapple popularly known as “Nanas Sawit” in Mukah and Dalat.
    The plant was first found by Encik Pada bin Isut growing amongst other
    pineapple plants in his farm located along Sungai Aba near Dalat. The whole
    fruit is almost evenly sweet, soft and juicy. Because of these characteristics
    Nanas Pada is very popular. Since then Encik Pada and his family have
    propagated more and now the planting had spread to not only in Dalat and
    Mukah but to other parts of Sarawak such as Miri and Kuching.

    Pineapple (Ananas comosus) belongs to the family Bromeliaceae. The fruit


    is commonly eaten fresh as dessert. Very often it is made into jam and
    juice. Pineapple juice is popular as a refreshing drink.

    Encik Pada bin Isut at his garden located along Sungai Aba, near to Dalat
    Town.

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    Sarawak Pineapples
    In Sarawak, pineapple is grown mainly in peat and muck soils along the flat
    coastal belt. The commercial pineapples belong mainly to two main groups;
    the smooth Cayenne and the spiny Mauritius. The so-called “Sarawak
    Pineapple” or Nanas Paun and its relatives belong to the former, while Nanas
    Sarikei the latter. Even as early as 1949 F.C.Cooke, invited to study the
    possibility of a pineapple canning industry in Sarawak, reported that he
    counted more than 20 different mutations of Nanas Paun based on both
    plant and fruit characteristics. While some may be variations due to habitat
    it is also possible that natural hybridization with the spiny Sarikei pineapple
    or spiny Mauritius group may occurred. Nanas Pada is probably a stable
    natural mutant.

    Plant Characters
    The mature plant has slender green leaves with dark red pigmentation along
    middle of the upper surface and silver grey on the lower surface. All the
    leaves are armed with sharp spines along both margins. The inflorescence,
    borne on a stout peduncle, is pink in colour and consist a 100-170 flowers.
    Bract leaves at the base of the inflorescence are red. The crown, green and
    conical, measures 10-15 cm long. No slip has been observed but 3-5 aerial
    suckers and 3-5 ground suckers are normally produced on each plant.

    Young Inflorescence Golden Yellow Flesh

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    Matured Fruit Harvesting Index 3

    50 % of fruit turn brownish yellow 100 % of fruit turn brownish yellow

    Fruit Characters
    Nanas Pasa fruit is almost cylindrical with medium sized prominently
    protruding eyes. On each eye the hard pointed remains of the stigma is
    quite distinct. Unripe fruits are dark green ripening to brownish yellow and
    finally to almost brownish red which is similar to the colour of ripened oil
    palm fruit bunch. This was why the local called it “Nanas Sawit”.

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    Cultural Practices
    Aerial or ground suckers are used as planting material. Suckers are planted
    in paired rows of 90 cm x 60 cm x 60 cm. For uniform fruit production,
    replanting is recommended after each season although one ratoon crop is
    acceptable.

    On peat soil, the recommended fertilizer rate is 435 kg ammonium sulphate,


    6 kg rock phosphate and 163 kg MOP (Muriate of Potash) per application per
    hectare. These are applied at 2, 5 and 8 months after transplanting. On
    mineral soil, the compound fertilizer 15:15:15 (N:P:K) is given at 860 kg per
    hectare per application at 2 and 5 months after transplanting. However, at
    8 months the compound 12:12:17:2+TE (N:P:K:Mg+TE) at the same rate is
    used instead.

    Foliar sprays containing 42gm copper sulphate, 42 gm zinc sulphate, 21 gm


    ferrous sulphate, 640 gm hydrated lime and 640 gm urea in 18 litres water
    are applied at 1 and again 4 months after transplanting for both peat and
    mineral soil plantings.

    For simultaneous and uniform fruit production, pineapple plants normally


    induced to flower at 9-10 months after transplanting. Commercial
    preparations are available or a mixture of 300 ppm Ethrel and 3% urea can
    be sprayed at the rate of 40 ml per plant.

    Although generally, in Sarawak, pineapple cultivation has been relatively


    free from major pest and diseases, mealy-bugs can cause considerable
    damage. Mealy-bugs are spread by ants and attack first the roots just
    below the soil surface. Infected plants appear weak and wilting, often
    reddish-yellow in colour. Dead and dying leaves should be removed and the
    plants treated at the base with chemicals such as white oil, dimethoate or
    acephate.

    Harvesting and Eating Quality


    Nanas Pada has been found to be very responsive to flower induction
    treatment. On average, after induction treatment the plant will flower in 30
    days; fruits can be harvested after 125-130 days. The best time of
    harvesting the fruits are when 2-3 rows of eyes begin to turn brownish
    yellow. This is also the harvesting stage whereby the fruit had achieve
    excellent eating quality, very sweet and crunchy. The fruits are considered
    over ripen when 100 % of the skin turned brownish yellow. At this stage the
    flesh would be soggy and watery.

    Fully ripened fruits weigh 1.5 kg – 2.5 kg with Total Soluble Solids (TSS) of
    15-19%. From an investigation, on average, the fruits of Nanas Pada

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    planted on peat soil are slightly larger (2.3 kg) than when planted on
    mineral soil (1.5 kg). The fruit is best consumed within 3 days after harvest.

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