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Emiratis have started tasting Tripura’s ‘Queen’ variety of pineapples for the first time from this week onwards. The Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb has flagged off a tonne consignment to Dubai this Sunday on a SpiceJet aircraft via New Delhi. SpiceJet has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the state government-run Tripura Horticulture Corp and a Kolkata-based company to facilitate the exports. President Ramnath Kovind, who is expected to visit Tripura tomorrow would declare the ‘Queen’ variety of pineapple as the state fruit. The declaration of state fruit would be made at a civic reception organised by the state government in honour ... Read more