Raspberries are one of the important berries in Heilongjiang, China. It has a long history of cultivation. The largest cultivated area had been reached to 700 acres. There have both cultivated varieties and wild varieties in China but the commerce cultivated variety are only red raspberry now.
The red raspberry is an excellent fruit for the home garden and is by far the most popular. Canes erect 60-65 cm tall, nearly spineless, susceptible to powdery mildew tall, Good yield. The fruit bright, even medium size, round top, has a delightful flavor and tart sweetness, somewhat acid and is suitable for fresh market, pick-yourown, freezing only if good control of rust is achieved, canned or in jam. Ripe on early July. Brix 9-11%.
The raspberry is a composite fruit rather than a true berry, a cluster of drupe lets all connected to a central hull. (A drupe is a thin-skinned fruit that surrounds a single seed -- plums and cherries, for example. )
The ideal, ripe raspberry is hollow. It must mature on the bush, all the while loosening its hold on the hull of the fruit, which remains on the stem after the raspberry is picked. This makes raspberries quite fragile and perishable.
The yieldout of raspberries now in China are around 300 tons each year. About 10-50 tons of it for fresh market and others are made into frozen fruits, wins and less of jams.
Eurasia Foods Co. Ltd. is a private joined venture company which registered in 1997. It mainly specialize in processing and offering frozen fruits especially of wild berries and cultivated fruits, frozen vegetables, fruits and vegetables concentrates, agricultural and forestry by products, and other foods products.
All our products are produced for Exporting. The large export quantities each year are frozen berries and fruits. Each year we produce and export: IQF/BF Wild Lingonberry abut 500 tons, IQF/BF Wild blueberry about 100 tons, IQF/BF Strawberry about 300 tons, IQF/BF Raspberry about 150 tons, IQF/BF Blackcurrant about 100 tons. Other products are unstable depends on the contracts we signed each year.
Our Products are mainly exported to European Union, Japan, United States, Australai, New Zealand and Middle East. Export amount exceeds 1.5 million US Dollars each year.
We have two coldstores. One located at the raspberries, blackcurrants, gooseberries and strawberries cultivated area which mainly be used as processing iqf and blockfrozen raspberry and blackcurrant. Another one located at the wild lingonberry and wild blueberry grow area which be used for processing iqf and block frozen products.
We have other cold stores and factories which fully controlled by us. These can guarantee us to produce the relative products whenever we have all kinds of contracts.
Our strategy is to produce at our own factories and at source in fully controlled factories. We also entrust other factories which most of them need us offering funds in advance for them to collect the raw materials to produce for us under our contracts and our control.
