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Workers on the world’s largest pineapple farm harvest day and night at Great Giant Foods plantation in southern Sumatra. The vertically integrated company farms 124 square miles—about half of which are in pineapples—with some twenty-five thousand employees who grow, harvest, process, and can the fruit at the company’s canning factory in the middle of the farm. Great Giant makes one out of every five cans of pineapple sold around the globe. Like many multinational food companies, Great Giant Foods is trying to reduce its environmental footprint, using biogas from factory wastewater, reducing plastics in its production line, and using less chemical fertilizer in its fields. Such efforts helped the company become certified by Global G.A.P. (Good Agricultural Practices) and the Rainforest Alliance.

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Workers on the world’s largest pineapple farm harvest day and night at Great Giant Foods plantation in southern Sumatra. The vertically integrated company farms 124 square miles—about half of which are in pineapples—with some twenty-five thousand employees who grow, harvest, process, and can the fruit at the company’s canning factory in the middle of the farm. Great Giant makes one out of every five cans of pineapple sold around the globe. Like many multinational food companies, Great Giant Foods is trying to reduce its environmental footprint, using biogas from factory wastewater, reducing plastics in its production line, and using less chemical fertilizer in its fields. Such efforts helped the company become certified by Global G.A.P. (Good Agricultural Practices) and the Rainforest Alliance.

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