{"id":17969,"date":"2026-09-11T13:27:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T13:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/?p=17969"},"modified":"2026-09-11T13:27:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T13:27:51","slug":"pineapple-production-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/2026\/09\/11\/pineapple-production-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Pineapple Production Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17970 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/792990646_1519111190235889_1147426399781761755_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/792990646_1519111190235889_1147426399781761755_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/792990646_1519111190235889_1147426399781761755_n-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/792990646_1519111190235889_1147426399781761755_n-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/792990646_1519111190235889_1147426399781761755_n.jpg 1276w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Under the leadership of Hon. Anthony Smith Jr.\/Minister of Agriculture, and Hon. Randy Baltimore\/Minister of State, the Ministry of Agriculture continues to advance efforts to strengthen local pineapple production.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">We are currently awaiting the next 27,000 pineapple plants, which will further support the expansion of pineapple cultivation across Antigua and Barbuda. Once the Ministry\u2019s laboratory is fully functional, local production of planting material will increase, reducing our reliance of the assistance from the tissue culture lab in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">With the assistance and support of CARDI and IICA, this is another step toward building a stronger, more self-sufficient agricultural sector and ensuring that we safely continue to grow our own food.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the leadership of Hon. Anthony Smith Jr.\/Minister of Agriculture, and Hon. Randy Baltimore\/Minister of State, the Ministry of Agriculture continues to advance efforts to strengthen local pineapple production. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-notices"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17971,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17969\/revisions\/17971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agriculture.gov.ag\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}