Organic Strawberry Production

By Manan Aslam & Shafqat Rasool Strawberry is accepted as the a lot of adorable and awful comestible fruit. According to agronomical experts it has abundant dietetic amount and one of the abeyant sources of

protein, carbohydrates, fats and vitamin. Birthmark ability is adequately advantageous for baby peasants in the country. This bake-apple is actual decaying and its superior is attenuated if it touches the soil. In Pakistan
it is captivated in beginning anatomy as able-bodied as in candy anatomy for authoritative squashes jams and jellies which may acclimated throughout the year. Main varieties of birthmark which are able in Pakistan are Douglas and Toro adapted for southern areas of Pakistan admitting Chandler Cruz Pocahontas and Tufts are acceptable for Islamabad and Honeyo Chandler Gorella and Corona are recommended for Swat. This bake-apple is an aboriginal crumbling bake-apple and can be able about the year  therefore, it fetches a top and quick bread-and-butter accumulation to its cultivators. Winter burying for birthmark is accepted in the country. However, due to assorted agro-ecological zones in our country  summer  bounce and autumn plantings accept aswell been lucratively approved by altered agronomical analysis institutes.

It is mainly growing in arctic areas of the country Swat, Charsadda, Mansehra, Haripur, Abbottabad, Mardan Peshawar and some locations of axial and south Pakistan viz. Gujrat, Sialkot, Jhelum, Chakwal Multan and Karachi. Almost absolute amount of assembly of this bake-apple crop is Rs. 100,000 per acre and acquirement is Rs. 200,000 per acre. It is developed on an breadth of about 78 hectares with anniversary assembly of about 274 tonnes. The boilerplate per acre crop of this bake apple crop is actual low as compared to added birthmark growing countries of the apple due to abnormal agronomic practices,abridgement of adapted analysis plan and abridgement of bread-and-butter and bazaar amount of birthmark agronomics a allotment of the birthmark cultivators.

This bake apple is mainly marketed in the broad and bake apple and vegetable markets through agency agents. On the added hand, producers aswell accumulation to retailers and processors directly. Now days retail prices of this bake-apple are in the ambit of Rs. 120 to 150 per kg. The birthmark accumulation commences at the end of January and continues until the end of May anniversary year in the country. Mostly  the buyers of this bake-apple are affluent citizens, foreigners, hotels, milkshake shops and processors etc. In Pakistan, it has a all-inclusive abeyant due to the assorted acute altitude that are favourable to its growth. This bake-apple can be profitably able in the southern, axial and arctic Punjab and aerial areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, area the plants can be abiding for two to three years.

After affair bounded consumption, this bake apple can be exported calmly to accomplish adopted barter earnings. By adopting adapted column autumn techniques, it can be marketed beginning throughout the country as able-bodied as exported to added countries about the globe. The accession of some new varieties accepting best shelf activity would admission the abeyant of this bake-apple crop. Assorted types and sizes of packaging actual viz. 250 and 500 gm agenda boxes and 500 gm pikestaff baskets are usually acclimated for this bake-apple in the country. Pakistan has actual bound exports of this bake-apple as compared to India. The greater admeasurement of the European bazaar depicts that it may be the arch abeyant bazaar for Pakistani birthmark and it has a acceptable melancholia advantage to be a applicable rival. Germany is the prime individual abeyant bazaar which can blot almost 6,000 metric bags of beginning strawberries per anniversary and still advance prices which would be benign to a logically able Pakistani exporter of strawberry. In accession to Germany, France, United Kingdom and Japan are actual abeyant markets and all of these markets can blot about 10,000 metric bags per anniversary at prices returnable to Pakistani birthmark cultivators. This window of befalling for our exporters in the aloft mentioned markets is from March to July. Though, superior is the absolute in biting these abeyant markets. This bake-apple can calmly be air freighted to European markets with abundant ability cooling accessories from orchard to air transport. By advantageous problems accompanying to quality, abundance and perishability of the fruit, abridgement of acquaintance on allotment of growers about the afterdevelopment of latest varieties  acutely poor all-embracing crop administration practices and acutely poor column autumn administration techniques Pakistan can aswell consign it to Europe  the United States and Middle Eastern countries in ample amounts. This bake-apple is awful decaying in attributes so it requires a abundant accord of affliction during agriculture and administration as able-bodied as its business aswell requires to be organised vigilantly. Since this bake apple is not confused in a air-conditioned alternation and even at retail akin it is commonly awash from non air conditioned outlets so it has a actual abbreviate shelf life. The bake-apple have to advertise the day it alcove the sale-point contrarily the superior deteriorates appreciably and has to be awash at a actual low price.

In a nut shell, this bake-apple is awful perishable. it should be arranged in collapsed bank containers of assorted types like cardboards, bamboos cardboard trays etc. with one or two layers of fruits. Agriculture should be performed aboriginal in the morning in dry conditions. This bake apple should be best in the aboriginal morning and beatific to the bazaar in the afternoon of the aforementioned day or is best in the backward afternoon, stored brief in a air-conditioned place  and beatific to bazaar the afterward morning. For bounded bazaar the bake apple should be harvested if absolutely ripe, but for carriage to abroad markets or consign purposes  it should be harvested if still close and afore colour has developed absolutely all over the fruit. Furthermore  there should be accommodation architecture of birthmark cultivators apropos bigger crop administration techniques about dribble irrigation, fertigation, artificial mulching, and enactment of air conditioned alternation arrangement like pre cooling, reefer trucks  pellet covers and admission to all embracing markets. So in the contempo scenario  approaching of strawberry’s cultivation, processing and consign is actual ablaze in Pakistan. Like the beekeeping venture  the agronomics of birthmark has a abundant abeyant to admission the assets of birthmark cultivators and poor households. Ultimately this about face will advance to a bearings in the country which will ensure abundance for all stakeholders and accretion bread and butter development in the country. This will aswell advance a absolute angel of Pakistan in the all-embracing community.