Established in 1957 under Pineapple Industry Act 1957 to finance of agronomic and processing research programmes for the industry, to negitiate of agreements on prices and grades of pineapples for sale to canneries, to regulate of the production, grading and marketing of pineapple for sale to canneries and of canned pineapple, to collect of statistics and maintenance of statistical records of the industry, to grant of financial assistance, whether by way of subsidy or otherwise, to the industry as a whole or any section of it and to administer of a cess fund and making recommendations regarding the rate of cess