These are the Portuguese, who gave his final name. Originally from Brazil, where the Indians placed crowns or whole fruit to their homes as a sign of friendship and hospitality, the pineapple was discovered by Christopher Columbus in Guadeloupe in 1493. A century later, the Portuguese and Spanish navigators implanted respectively in India and Africa and the Philippines and Hawaii. Transport pineapples in voyages of discovery is due to its antiscorbutic properties. Imported in 1660 in England, the first greenhouses were the work of Dutch (Leiden) in the seventeenth century and the English in 1720.

In 2010, more than 80 countries grew pineapples worldwide, but only 4 (Thailand, Philippines, Brazil and China) accounted for over 50% of world production. The development of international trade pineapple was for a long time hampered by transport difficulties. However, as a result of technical progress in the field of transport on the one hand, but also cooling the other, it could grow to. In 2010, exports accounted for about 15% of world production (2.8% in 1961). These are mainly provided by four countries (Costa Rica, the Philippines, The Equator and Côte d'Ivoire), which together account for over 70% of the 2.9 million tons exported in 2010, while Belgium and the Netherlands are major re-exporters.

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