Pineapple lovers are lucky to enjoy a glut of tropical fruit at a cheap price as the crop ripened prematurely after an unseasonal winter rain in Queensland.
The cold and wet snap in the sunshine state is expected to result in millions of pineapples—or 70 percent of the annual crop ripening all at once instead of spreading out all year round like usual.
It is the first mass natural flowering event in 50 years.
Samuel Pike, a fourth-generation pineapple grower, said farmers were racing with the time and encouraged Australians to help with the glut.
“Usually, a crop would spread out over eight to 10 months, but it’s pretty well all going to come within two weeks,” he told AAP….