David Berry

Managing Director at Berry Limited

Yunnan visit

Dear Reader, Last month I had the pleasure of visiting Yunnan, China’s large south western province, with Dragons Garden’s MD Kirby Wang. Starting in Xishuangbanna we travelled to Menghai, Pu’er (famous for tea), Zhenyuan, Jingdong, Jianshui (famous for teapots) and Kaiyuan. The purpose of the trip was to visit our sources of cultivated blueberries in […]

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June 2023 China Trip

My last trip to China was in November 2019, and it was great to be back. So how are things in the Middle Kingdom since the Covid Pandemic? The first thing is the new flight route. Instead of heading up to 60 degrees North over Helsinki and then traversing Siberia the new route from Europe

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organic pumpkin

Newsletter Summer 2019

The season in Shandong and the other main strawberry growing provinces is likely to be reduced due to very warm weather from the 18th of May. Prior to that the Spring was cool and just enough rain had fallen. The crop looked good but was all over in Shandong by 30th May rather than extending until the 10th of June as happens in some years. Fruit quality is nice. After strawberries we are straight into apricots.

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