CANNED PINEAPPLES
DRIVE BY CEYLON COLOMBO. Ceylon marketing department officials are planning to build up a flourishing trade for locally canned pineapples in the overseas market. They propose to export 500,000 tins or more a year, Avithin the next few years. A marketing department official said that in the past the high cost of production of the locally canned tins compared to the Malayan and West Indies products proved a serious obstacle to the development of overseas markets. But in view of the recent reduction in costs and advantages resulting from currency devaluation it was possible, lib said, to foster an export trade in this item. He thought that an export trade up to 500,000 tins of pineapples a (year could be built up gradually. —Reui ter.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 116, 1 March 1950, Page 7
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127CANNED PINEAPPLES Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 116, 1 March 1950, Page 7
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