Meet the Dubai pineapple pioneer using modern methods to help tropical fruit thrive – The National

Meet the Dubai pineapple pioneer using modern methods to help tropical fruit thrive – The National

An Emirati businessman steeped in a rich farming tradition is reaping the rewards of his enterprising approach to agriculture.

A real estate boss by day, Abdullatif Al Banna, 56, spends many an evening tending to the thousands of pineapples he grows each year at his farm in the desert of Al Aweer in Dubai.

May is the month when he harvests more than 4,000 of the tropical fruit, spread across four greenhouses.