Pineapple Essay

1.1 Background of study
Today, there are demand on an energy, which turned to serious crisis threat towards sustainability for developing countries since their energy demand is growing more rapidly than developed countries. On the other hand, fossil fuels cannot sustain anymore in future because of an environmental impacts and depletion factors. The depletion of fossil energy resources and the emission of pollutants into the atmosphere (Nigam, 2011) have led to the rise of new energy policies promoting renewable energies, such as bioethanol (Rutz, 2008). Malaysia is experiencing drastic growth in population and economy which requires exploring alternative energy sources to support its population and commercial energy demand. Biomass as the

In Malayisa, pineapple was initially grown as a contour plant and now is developed as crops plant around Johor’s soft soil area (MPIB, 2014). pineapple is a non seasonal type of fruit, hence it can be cultivated at any year in the tropical climate. As one of the tropical countries, Malaysia is ranked as the 18th world’s largest pineapple producer (Therakyatpost, 2015). Pineapple can be obtained all year long as it is not a seasonal type of crop. Among the biggest pineapple cultivator countries of the world are Philippines Brazil, and the Thailand . The main exporters of fresh pineapple in the world are Ivory Coast Philippines, and the Costa Rica, while exports of canned pineapple are dominated by Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand . For the global pineapple juice market, the Thailand and Philippine are the biggest exporters. Malaysia, in aspects of production is in the 9th position globally, among other countries, while in terms of exports, it is in the 10th position among the countries of fresh and canned pineapple exporters. For exports in the form of juice, Malaysia is in the 24th place, according to information which is obtain from