How to Grow Blueberries? Smart Agriculture Black Technology Boosts Per-Plant Yield
Today's agricultural technology is becoming increasingly intelligent. Scan a QR code and you can trace quality, with technical collection of all kinds of crop growth data. Agricultural ‘black technology’, smart agriculture has greatly improved the quality of agricultural products.
During blueberry ripening season, at the Hongfa Fruit Industry base, many people come to pick blueberries. Blueberries have thin skin, tender flesh, plenty of juice and a sweet taste, and are called the “Queen of Fruits”. Because of these qualities, many people like to eat blueberries. The blueberries at the Hongfa Fruit Industry base not only attract local visitors, but even tourists from surrounding cities such as Wenzhou, Hangzhou and Ningbo come in droves.
In early June, this period is the peak season for blueberry picking, and blueberry picking does not basically end until late August. In the blueberry orchard, the purplish-red and black jade-like beads hanging on the blueberry bushes give off an enticing fruity fragrance. It makes your mouth water!
High quality is a key element of agricultural product cultivation. Tao Zhonghua, head of the Hongfa Fruit Industry base, has a sweet “worry”, because orders from all over the country keep flying in through WeChat, but the early-ripening blueberries have already sold out. Regarding the situation of demand exceeding supply, Tao Zhonghua said that fortunately, starting this week blueberries have entered the peak ripening season and can meet market demand to a certain extent.
In Tao Zhonghua's “fruit kingdom”, in addition to high-definition cameras, various monitoring sensor devices such as drip irrigation systems have also been installed. These devices can effectively monitor information such as soil moisture, temperature, wind speed and rainfall at the base, allowing targeted measures to be taken for scientific management and refined operations. Through “smart agriculture”, the orchard has achieved traceability of agricultural product quality, letting visitors and residents understand the entire process of production and management, achieving effective supervision of agricultural product quality and safety, and laying a solid foundation for entering the high-end fruit market.
In terms of cultivation, blueberries have relatively high growing requirements, and the survival rate of saplings is relatively low. In order to grow high-quality, value-added blueberry varieties such as O'Neal, Tao Zhonghua specially improved the blueberry planting soil and imported testing equipment from the United States to achieve soil pH improvement and create a better growing environment. Thanks to the strong support and technical assistance of government departments at all levels, this problem was successfully overcome, and the benefits of “smart agriculture” were also tasted. This enabled the blueberry planting area of Hongfa Fruit Industry to expand on a large scale, and it now covers more than 100 mu.
Not long ago, Shangyu Hongfa Fruit Industry also obtained the titles of “National Five-Star Demonstration Enterprise (Park) for Leisure Agriculture and Rural Tourism” and the third batch of national-level Xingchuang Tiandi. “This provides a demonstration for us in wanting to develop the boutique fruit industry. We will more quickly form a ‘star fruit’ industry with industrial clustering, distinctive features and popular appeal, promoting new development in rural revitalization.
In blueberry cultivation, using agricultural ‘black technology’ greatly improves blueberry cultivation and production, and also has a supervisory effect on quality. Do you hope agricultural ‘black technology’ will be promoted?
