Largest cranberry planting base in China enters harvest season

China's largest cranberry planting base, located in Fuyuan city, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, enters its earliest harvest season. (Photo/Courtesy of the culture, sports, radio, television, and tourism bureau of Fuyuan city)

A cranberry planting base in Fuyuan city, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, the largest of its kind in China, recently entered its harvest season 10 days earlier than usual, thanks to the abundant sunlight and heat it has enjoyed during the second half of the year.

Farmers flooded cranberry fields until water ran over the cranberry trees, and the ripe fruit floated to the surface of the water, resembling bright rubies.

Located in the east of the Sanjiang Plain in Heilongjiang, Fuyuan boasts flat land, black soil that enjoys good air and water permeability, and rich water resources, which guarantee favorable conditions for the harvest of cranberries through this flooding method.

Fuyuan introduced cranberry planting techniques to local farmers in 2014, and now the city's total planting area of the fruit has reached 4,200 mu (280 hectares).