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On February 19, Prize (Baiziguo) held an opening ceremony for the first ship of Chilean southern cherries this season at Guangzhou Jianglonghui Wholesale Market. A total of 4 containers arrived this time, 1 container of Red Passion and 3 containers of Red Pig, with varieties including Regina, Sweetheart and Lapins. Located at 34 degrees south latitude, the southern region of Chile has sufficient sunshine and a large temperature difference between day and night, which is conducive to photosynthesis and fruit coloring, making the sugar accumulation of cherries more sufficient, the color is brighter, and the taste is richer. In addition, southern Chile is far away from industrial areas, with fresh air and clean soil, plus clean water from the Andes Mountains, which provides natural conditions for the growth of cherries. It is understood that Prize will also welcome a batch of southern cherries (Seaspan Belief) on March 5, and Giddings-Cerasus (Little Bee) will also arrive on March 11. A batch of patented varieties of cherries. Little Bee's patented varieties of Cerasina include Final 12.1 and Final 13.1, sweetness over 20, sweet taste, picking time is 1-2.5 weeks later than late-maturing varieties such as Regina. Since the new variety was first released in March 2022, this year has been the fourth consecutive year of supply to the Chinese market. The launch of the patented variety of Little Bee basically means the end of the Chilean cherry sales season. With the development of various early and late-maturing varieties, the supply season of Chilean cherries can be extended to 6 months.

[Reporter Jaenam Kang, Korea Agricultural and Fishery Newspaper] Jeju Island has started a 1/2 thinning project for citrus orchards this year to produce high-quality citrus fruits and increase farm income. Jeju Special Self-Governing Province announced that it will establish guidelines for the citrus orchard thinning project in 2025 and focus its administrative power until April. The province has been promoting a 1/2 thinning project for 994 ha of citrus fruits for 2,530 farms for the past five years from 2020 to last year, and plans to promote the project on a scale of 100 ha this year. Farmers who wish to thin should submit an application for thinning and proof of ownership of the citrus orchard to the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation or the local community center where the citrus orchard is located by the 28th.

As tariffs on American tangerines (mandarins) are scheduled to be abolished starting next year under the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA), the government’s quota tariff policy has led to a sharp increase in imports last year. Criticism has been raised that the government has taken the lead in opening up the import market by applying excessive quota tariffs to items that can directly compete with domestic tangerines. According to the Korea Customs Service, last year’s mandarin imports were 2,874 tons, nearly five times more than in 2023 (587 tons). Foreign mandarins were first imported into Korea in 2017. At that time, imports were only 0.1 tons, but they have been gradually increasing to 8.4 tons in 2018, 512 tons in 2020, and 529 tons in 2022. The sudden surge in mandarin imports last year, which had been only about 500 tons per year since 2020, is analyzed to be due to the lower tariffs caused by the Korea-US FTA and the government's application of quota tariffs in the ...