You don't have to wait till winter. You can eat sweet, juicy fresh in summerStrawberryI don't know. Recently, consumers who walked into the shanghai gate of the gardens found that there was an extra bright eye “berries red” in the store, which was covered with summer fruits such as watermelons, grapes, peaches, and so full of red and fragrant summer snowberries, completely breaking the stencils of summer strawberries with sour hairs. This is from..QinghaiThe new species of sining, based on the unique highland environment and advanced planting techniques, have broken the seasonal barriers and turned the “winter limit” into “four seasons ready” exactlyEast-west collaborationNew industrial results。
Breaking the summer strawberries impression
"summer strawberry? That doesn't hurt your teeth!" that's a consumer consensus for years. In the past summer, the country had entered the traditional dry season with strawberries, and now the tibetan plateau had brought about an amazing miracle of “berries”。
“the strawberry is a summer fruit that prefers a warm environment, suitable for growing at 15°c-25°c and matures every june to july. But much of our country is situated in subtropical and temperate climates, with high summer temperatures and rainfall, which are not conducive to strawberry growth.” the vice-president of the strawberry association of jiangsu province and director of the centre for research and development of the golden estate in nanjing said that there were few good-quality strawberries in the summer autumn during the peak period of november to may of each year. In yunnan, for example, there are summer strawberries, but the acidity is high, mostly for jam and dessert processing, making it difficult to enter the fruit shop for sale as fresh fruit。
Aiming at this market gap, the humboldt garden and its partner nanjing gold estate launched a summer strawberry test plant in 2025, which, after a year of planting and logistics cold chain testing, led to the marketing of summer snow strawberries at the shanghai regional gate in the orchards at the end of june this year。
"soft, juicy, sour, sweet balance. I didn't expect such good strawberries in summer." in the garden door on wuting road in the jianan district of shanghai, the citizen's money lady bought two boxes of summer snowberries for the weekends' honeys. "it's very high and tasteful, and it subverts my impression of summer strawberries as sour and hard."
New people's night's journal reports that this year, 11 acres of snow strawberries are cultivated, with an estimated production of about 10 tons. According to industry plans, the species will continue to expand and production is expected to reach 100 tons by 2028. After summer snow strawberries form a scalding plant, it is indicated that the domestic strawberry industry will form the annual energy configuration of the winter and low altitude + western highlands base in the summer and autumn, addressing the seasonal faults of fresh fruit supply and promoting the upgrading of strawberries from seasonal monoliths to popular high-end fruits available throughout the year。
Building a standardized planting system
What are the difficulties that need to be overcome if summer strawberries are successfully grown? New people's night reporters learned that the greatest difficulty in growing strawberries in the summer is high temperatures, high summer temperatures in ordinary production areas, and difficulty in accumulating sugar in strawberries, which do not allow normal separation of buds. In order to find the right planting grounds, teams from the golden manor ran all over the country and eventually found answers in sining。
“sining is a cold area in the country, not too hot in the daytime, and at night the temperature drops into a more desirable temperature difference, which is good for strawberry growth.” the head of the permanent office of the golden manor in nanjing summer strawberry sing said:。
The qinghai sining, known as "hadu, china", has almost brought together the natural advantages required for summer strawberry growth: temperature averages 15-25°c in the summer, 14 hours longer than the sun and nearly 20°c in the day and night. The “three-high” conditions of high altitude, high temperature differentials and high sunlight provide a considerable natural condition for the accumulation of strawberry sugar。
Today, it enters the summer strawberries planting base in the village of western fort west in the town of western fort in the centre of the city of sining, where the steel-mounted “plant” is so bright and bright that the glass curtain wall shines the light of technology. In the impression of many people, strawberries are grown in large sheds, but there are no mud-filled scenes where they are replaced by coherent rows, with strawberries growing in staves。
Daytime greenhouses, water fertilizer integration equipment, temperature control intelligence equipment... Here, the golden estate team has set up a standardized planting system that centrally controls the whole growing process of the plant, with a strawberries growing large and fresh under constant warm and wet conditions, and completely abandons the traditional open-air cultivation patterns in the west。
In addition, in response to the problems of strawberry pellets and the vulnerability of long-distance transport, the orchards continuously optimize fruit packaging and cold-chain transport programmes, bringing fresh strawberries from the tibetan highlands to consumers in shanghai. Building on mature breeding and crop management techniques in the east, combined with cold climate resources unique to the west, the standardized planting system can be replicated to more high-altitude areas in the west and provide a landing model for summer strawberry cultivation throughout the country。
East-west collaboration produces “rich fruit”
A small summer snow strawberries, not just to fill the market gap for the city's summer fresh fruit, but to collaborate with the east and west. LandRural revitalizationThe specialty industry is really driving the local population to a steady increase in revenue。
Following the completion of the west fort's summer strawberry construction project, more than 20 people from the surrounding areas were effectively brought to the base for work, with an annual per capita increase of 40,000 yuan and an annual increase of 120,000 yuan for the collective economy of the western fort's village. “on the basis of the collaboration platform between the east and west, we combine the technology, channel advantages of eastern enterprises with the land and climate resources of the local highlands to create a summer strawberry-specific industry, where the industry is stable and rural renewal is sustained.”
New people's night's journalist learned that between 2025 and 2026, local collaboration funds from the east and west department and financial bridging funds of $37 million were pooled into the second phase of the strawberry crop project, which resulted in a cumulative flow of 300 acres of land for 163 farming households and the construction of 41 new solar greenhouses and a full set of intelligent agricultural facilities. During the project construction period, 64 local villagers were recruited to work in close proximity, with an increase of over tens of thousands yuan per person; 300,000 yuan per year was allocated for land transfer rent. Following the official operation of the base, the number of fixed jobs has been steady for the year, with more than 400 temporary jobs per year, further expansion of the diversified revenue channels for the population, optimization of the region-wide structure of the agricultural industry and boosting agricultural efficiency in the town area。
Phase ii projects were fully operational, and the base projected 174 tons of strawberries per year as a commodity, with overall gross production exceeding $7 million. The summer strawberry project established a complete industrial chain of eastern technological research and development - west highland plantation - national urban terminal marketing, which significantly increased the value added of agricultural products. This two-way cooperation model, which enriches the summer-day fruit dish of the citizens of the front-line cities, has also enabled the western highland specialty agriculture to emerge from the mountains as a “rich fruit” that drives the collective economy of villagers to grow and grow。
