Pineapple
📍 CameroonClick a numbered marker on the plant to explore each life-cycle stage — or read the key dates on the right.
Roots & seed establish first. Sow in at .
Leaves & stem drive the vegetative stage over .
Flowering falls mid-cycle between sowing () and harvest (). Keep stress low here.
Fruit/grain matures — harvest around .
Where Pineapple grows in Cameroon
Coastal lowlands
These are the coastal plains that include the Littoral, South West and part of the South. Mount Cameroon with its 4070 m above sea level rises in this flat in Buea in the South West and fertilizes immense plains suitable for mechanized agriculture. Altitude: 0-500 m. Soils: hydromorphe type volcanic and ferrallitic red. Two seasons: a rainy season logue with a dry season from mid-March to mid-November. Precipitation (2 000-4 500 mm per year). Pluvimétrie: monoimodale.Vent dominant: monsoon coming from the Gulf of Guinea. Temperatures: Maxi annual average: 29.8 ° C, Mini annual average: 21.5 ° C. Relative humidity: Maxi annual average: 98%, average annual Mini: 68%. Prevailing wind: Monsoon comes from the Gulf of Guinea. Vegetation: sempivirante Forests, mangroves.
Plateau South Cameroon
Bounded on the north by the Adamawa Province, south by Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Congo to the west of the western provinces and the Littoral, on the east by the CAR. Altitude: 500-800 m. Soil type red ferrallitic. Four seasons: a long rainy season from mid-March to mid-August, a small dry from mid-August to November, a long dry season from December to mid-March and a short dry season from mid-August to October. Precipitation (1 400-2 000 mm per year). Rainfall: bimodal. Temperatures: Maxi annual average: 21.15 ° C, Mini yearly average: 19.85 ° C. Relative humidity: Maxi annual average: 98%, average annual Mini: 63%. Vegetation: Forest semideciduous and savannah derivative.
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