The Chungnam Rural Development Administration advances strawberry harvest by one month with "government-led cooling."

The Chungnam Provincial Agricultural Technology Institute (Director Kim Young) has demonstrated the effectiveness of the "early planting and cooling technology at the base of the plant" in field trials, which can induce flower buds stably even in high-temperature summer environments, thereby confirming the potential for increased farm income. The Chungnam Provincial Agricultural Technology Institute held a "cooling technology field evaluation meeting" at the Nonsan Grafting Research Demonstration Farm on the 11th, with the participation of about 200 strawberry growers and officials from research and guidance institutions. This evaluation was held to share the actual applicability of the technology and its effects under different cultivation conditions, and to check the potential for use by farmers. Strawberries typically begin flowering in mid-September and are harvested in earnest from December, but recently there has been an increasing demand among farmers to advance the harvest ...