ISHS Acta Horticulturae 523: XXV International Horticultural Congress, Part 13: New and Specialized Crops and Products, Botanic Gardens and Human-Horticulture Relationship
THE PROSPECTS OF BLACKBERRY IN SOUTHEASTERN CHINA |
| Authors: | S.A. He, Y. Gu, Z.J. Sun, J.H. Cai, J.X. Ma, W.L. Li |
| Abstract:
Plant introduction is often providing new plant material for new growing areas, new industry and new products for people. Aside past successes of introduction of wild plants such as the rubber tree from Brazil to Malaysia, the contribution of the introduction of cultivated plants such as citrus and soybean from China to the U.S. and the rapeseed production in Canada is highly splendid too. China has a territory of more than 9.6 million square kilometers but more than two-third is hilly and mountainous. As the pressure of population is getting more serious day by day, agricultural land is being lost and the utilization of hilly and mountainous areas is a great task in the development of the economy of the country. To develop hilly and mountainous areas people need more new crops and economic plants adapted to the various ecological conditions of the hilly and mountainous areas. The present authors recognized the situation and initiated a program on the introduction of small fruits, especially the shrub species of small fruits, for the development of hilly areas since 1986. The success and prospects of the introduction of blackberry are reported in this article. | |
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