Current status and development analysis of entire field mechanization of pineapple industry

The traditional pineapple industry mainly relies on manual work, however, its high labor intensity and low efficiency directly lead to supply delay, production and marketing imbalance and price fluctuations, resulting in severe market crisis of the whole industry chain. With the progress of agricultural engineering technology and manufacturing industry, there is huge demand in the application of entire mechanization equipment of pineapple. Due to variation in natural resources, geographical characteristics, growth environment and crop varieties, the integration of pineapple industry chain, the establishment of key technology system and the concentration of specific management stages have become the main tasks in recent years. Based on a thorough understanding of the development status of pineapple industry at home and abroad, the current situation of field operation mechanization was taken as the focus of investigation in this paper. In addition, combined with the distribution of domestic resources in China, the current application status of supporting equipment and technical system problems were comprehensively analyzed, and the relevant policies of the national and local governments were summarized. On this basis, the future direction of pineapple field mechanization development was pointed out according to the current forms, technology status and existing problems, as well as providing a reference for the innovation and development of the related agricultural engineering technologies. © 2019, Asian Association for Agricultural Engineering. All rights reserved.