“sakura and princesses are new varieties that have not been tested in the market before, but did not expect this year to be so good as to be unexpected.” in recent days, the head of the base, zhang zhang zhui, located in the plain area of the city of yotai, has been pleased with the fact that a cherries with amber is full of branches and looks at the harvest of the garden。
The new varieties of cherries were selected by the yantai city agricultural college and transferred in 2024 at a contract amount of millions of dollars to tantaya agricultural high technology ltd., which was also the first successful transfer of large new cherries by the yantai city. This year, for the first time, princesses and princesses were listed for sale at a price of $598 per pound for primary fruit. How did the market feedback for the new varieties go? How did it come about? What are the qualities and prospects for future replication? With these problems, the journalists walked into the grand valley plantation。
New species of surprises
High yield, big fruit, taste. Okay
At the beginning of june, a large number of cherries were already on the market, and it was only when the fragrances in the bouquets of the great grain growing base matured, with a yellow fruit slowly dazzling with a red dizziness, red through the yellow and a fragrance。
In the shed of the grand valley plantation base, located in the profit zone of the city of smoke, a red-stunned yellow cherry is full of branches。
“this is the first year of trying to button up the sheds, trying to explore the pattern of growing them, to see how they work, and then in january, so the cherry came on the market relatively late.” zhang zhang zhang qihua smiled to explain. It is not surprising that, although the first year of the shacks is still in the exploratory phase of management, new varieties reap surprises, “high production, fruit and taste”
The population grows fruit trees and values production, which directly affects income. The first surprise to him from cherry and fraff is that there are many flowers, with a high rate of fruit, and that "the flowers, unlike the others, may be a cluster of flowers, are growing along the branches, and it's painful to make the fruit a little bigger and need twirling."
Under the guidance of the senior agronomist lee yan kiu, the breeder of sakura and sakura city, after two rounds of flowering, the output of one tree was in the order of 6 pounds, and the fruit was usually more than 30 mm in length and 40 mm in length。
New varieties can have a fruit diameter of almost 40 mm。
"in the open, the cherry is bigger than the fragrance and the fragrance of the fragrance, but the fruit of the fragrance is quite large after the shack." zhang zhang zhang zhihua's introduction to pick up a cherry and hand it over to the journalist, “it's only a week before she matures, it's only two days since she matures, and you will never forget it.”
Unlike traditional cherries, the fragrance is thick and sweet, the entrance juice and the fragrance of the fruit. The most intuitive impression of a journalist is pure “sweet”. Zhang zhuhua took the fruit with her hands and measured it at 23. 1 per cent sugar。
Many of the local smokers prefer crystals, sweet and soft fruit, which are delicious but not resistant to transport. And the two varieties, cherry and hyena, have just solved the problem. They're hard, they're durable. Cherry transported through the cold chain reaches consumers and can be stored in refrigerators for more than 10 days。
The high quality demonstrated by princess sakura and princess zhang gave zhang zhang zhui confidence and he was determined to target high-end markets. “the result of our first offer on the market is 598 pounds, mainly for high-end businesses in the north, with particularly good feedback, with nearly 600 pounds already sold this year, and a portion of the tour display being kept.”
Twelve years of chosen paths
We'll harvest our first cherries
How did a lot of cherry and shelves grow? Lee yan ju opened the box。
Sakura's breeder and senior agro-scientist lee yan kiu of the academy of agricultural sciences of yantai city
“the cherries that were on the market were either sweet, but the little cherries couldn't last, or they were hard, but they didn't taste well. So we started in 2010 to select new varieties of cherries, with the target for breeding being the yellow varieties of hard fruit, big fruit, good taste, and durable transport.” lee yan ju explained that the mother had chosen renee for the cherry variety, and the father had chosen the hard meat sweet cherry varieties for the early and mixed。
“the survival rate of cherry seedlings is very low, at only five per 1,000.” lee yon ju said, like apples, pears and cherries, they were in mid-april of each year, but apples and pears matured in october, embryos were fully developed, and cherries matured in late may and early june, and embryos were largely underdeveloped. “the seeds planted in the first year, and 50 seedlings came out at the end, are precious.”
“the cherries that come out, many of them are big and beautiful, but sour. It's very fortunate to be able to come out of the cherries of the sisters." lee yon kiu went on to describe that the selection of the varieties would take several years to see how stable they were, and that they would be tested in different regions until 2022, when they were accepted by experts。
“the two varieties were named amber i and amber ii, the color of which was similar to amber ii. After the expert's acceptance, the confector said that they had a unique scent, which gave them a better name, and that they were later named after them and the country's first cherries with fruit, which we tested because of the high levels of esters in the meat, so they had cherries.”
It took 12 years for the whole selection process, which, according to lee yon ju, was a “ten-year-old sword”, but it was a very smooth new breed. “we still have the varieties that we started breeding in 2006 and are still choosing.”
In 2024, princesses and princesses were certified through shandong province varieties and transferred to shandong valley agricultural high technology ltd. For a contract amount of millions of dollars, which was the first successful transfer of large new cherry varieties by the city of smokey。
Zhang zaihua (right) and lee yan ju are measuring the path。
“the abundance of cherry and hyena is good, basically three years old, but it is not recommended that the results be too early, until the trees grow and the production of an acre is contained within 1,500 pounds, guaranteeing quality.” lee yan ju said that they had also designed two patented tree shapes for this type of species, namely, light-simplified stem natural form and light-simplified dry circular form, with tree heights of about 2 metres, which could be achieved by cutting. This tree shape also facilitates day-to-day management and harvesting by fruit farmers, “they reach out to pick up cherry and reduce the physical damage from climbing”
A worthwhile adventure
Good breeds of fruit farmers
Zhang zhang zhang zhuhua, who introduced a new cherries species as the first crab eater, said that this “risk” was worth it。
“in recent years, the price of cherries has been relatively high in the market, when mr. Li's team chose the two varieties of cherry and hyena, and we felt a lot of potential as soon as we taste them, they were hard and sweet.” zhang zhouhua said that although new varieties had not been previously tested in the market, they still felt worthy of trying。
Zhang keihua is looking at the shape of the fruit tree。
Zhang zhou hua's father has been growing large cherries for more than a decade, such as red light, italian red, miyuri, sami, rabins, etc., and is now preparing to replace these old fruit trees with a new one。
On the day of the interview, the growers in yunnan sent photos to lee yan kiu to share the joy of the results. “the sugar scale is 18. 7%, the fruit range is 32 mm. They seeded two years of fruit trees, planted in the open, marketed one week earlier than we do.” lee yon ju said。
How can good varieties benefit more farmers? Zhang zhouhua's team is well planned。
With more than 400 acres of cultivation, 20 solar greenhouses and more than 200 acres of well-planted nursery, nursery and nursery grounds, the agricultural high technology corporation for large valleys has now led to the cultivation of 5,000 acres of new cherries in surrounding areas. Starting in march this year, a total of more than 1,000 visitors from all over the country have been invited to work in intensive negotiations on diversity cooperation, co-construction of bases and distribution of fruit products. Next, they will spread these new cherry varieties to other cherry-producing areas in shandong and to xinjiang, guizhou, sichuan, yunnan and liaoning。
"the smoke platinum is more than a hundred years old and needs to be replaced." lee yon ju senses that the sandy soil and hilly hills of the pyrotechnic pyrotechnics are well-lighted, have a high iron content, contribute to the growth of cherries, the may chrysanthemum period of cherries, the high temperatures between day and night, the accumulation of sugar for daytime cooperation, the reduction of breathing consumption at night and the accumulation of sufficient sugar. These natural gifts are the very foundation of the high quality of cherry and hyena。
Lee yen ju said that the selection of new varieties required a generation of transmissions and a long process, but that as long as they continued, there would always be good varieties. The successful transfer of new varieties and the good resonance of the first listing not only helped to boost the harvest of fruit farmers, boosted the development of the tobacco-based large cherry industry, but also provided useful insights into the expansion of high-end markets for the national production of cherries。
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