date:Apr 28, 2014
Pineapple grower Dole Philippines Inc. is currently on an expansion mode by as much as three quarters more of its current land area in south-central Mindanao to meet the requirement of the fruit-consuming Asian market, a company executive said.
Expanding by another 12,000 hectares would be equivalent to three-fourths of its current plantation size of 16,571 hectares scattered in the provinces of South Cotabato and Sarangani.
Melquiades L. Hernandez III, director of Dole Philippines corporate