The diagram illustrates how pineapples grown and processed for various purposes.
Overall, it can be seen that it is a multiple-stage, man-made, linear process where the first step is growing pineapples until the needed condition/the fruit are ripe and the final step is producing a range of pineapple products.
To begin, the process starts from planting pineapple crowns within regular distances of about 26cm and growing them in the temperature between 23-30C. The fruit grow and increase in size within a 7-month period and at this stage are sprinkled with ethaline mixture to stimulate further growth. After 5 additional months pineapples reach their perfect ripe stage, which can be indicated by the size of a fruit of 30cm and its weight of 2kg.
Once fully grown, the fruit are collected on a tray for washing and are subsequently being sorted by size, where the smallest pineapples go for juice production, middle ones are used for canning and the biggest are exported. In order to prepare pineapples for juice extraction the main part is separated from the crown, cleaned and put into the extractor which presses out the juice. As for canning production, it requires the crown to be cut off and the fruit to be sliced into slices and chunks, after which they can be canned. Meanwhile, the biggest pineapples are taken as a whole fruit and covered with a layer of wax to ensure their preservation. When they have been prepared, the pineapples are then collected onto transportation trays and loaded onto a ship.