The Taiwanese jujubes planted at the "Orchard Family Farm" in Takase Village, Rock Creek Town, have entered a critical flowering and fruit setting period, and the farm staff carefully maintain them and wait for the fruits to ripen and harvest.
Recently, this reporter came to the "Fruit Garden Family Farm" located in Takase Village, Rock Creek Town, and saw the green jujube trees in the garden, with lush branches, branches full of pale yellow flower buds and small white flowers, some petals have withered, and small fruits have been exposed on the stems, which look very cute, some small fruits are as small as small bean grains, some are as large as fingers, and countless tender little dates have brought hope for the farmers a bumper harvest.
According to the person in charge, Taiwan has many jujube flowers and a large number of fruits, and the jujube flowering and fruit setting period is a very important period, which needs to be carefully maintained, not only the land should be kept dry, but also the foliar fertilizer should be sprayed to comprehensively supplement nutrition.
Wu Yiqiang, head of Orchard Family Farm:
We are now in the stage of flower preservation and fruit preservation, and we need to spray, fertilize and observe the growth every day, and this year is expected to have an output of 120,000 catties.
It is understood that this Taiwan jujube picking garden covers an area of 23 acres, since the pilot planting in March last year, there are more than 40,000 pounds of output in December of that year, the output is gratifying, coupled with the Taiwan jujube crisp and sweet, rich in nutrition, welcomed by the market, is expected to promote the increase of farm income.