Early spring strawberry seedlings enter the country to prepare for cultivation and compete for freshness

Recently, a batch of 1000 high-quality strawberry seedlings from France arrived at the designated supervision site for inbound seedlings at Qingdao Jiaodong International Airport. Under the supervision and protection of customs, these fresh strawberry seedlings were quickly transported to professional seedling storage sites through "conditional withdrawal", laying out the groundwork for the subsequent spring plowing production and market supply.

Spring is the key 'window period' for strawberry seedling planting, and time is the survival rate and market opportunity. Therefore, we choose the efficient and fast Qingdao Airport for entry, "said Zhang Haina, the import and export business manager of Beijing Andrew Fruit Food Co., Ltd.

In order to accurately respond to the demands of enterprises, the Qingdao Jiaodong Airport Customs under Qingdao Customs has implemented a "conditional removal" measure for imported seedlings. After completing basic inspection, sampling and inspection at the port site, and eliminating major quarantine risks, enterprises are allowed to remove strawberry seedlings to designated seedling supervision and storage sites for safe storage before laboratory test results are issued, achieving a "parallel operation" of quarantine waiting and logistics operation, and winning valuable "time difference" for seedling planting.

This batch of seedlings can quickly enter a stable environment and 'settle down', laying a solid foundation for us to quickly carry out large-scale planting. Professional warehousing allows seedlings to maintain their best condition while waiting for testing results, solving our worries, "Zhang Haina sighed.

Seedlings may carry foreign harmful organisms such as viruses, pests, or weeds. Once these harmful organisms spread to the planting area, they may pose a serious threat to the local ecology. To effectively prevent quarantine risks, the customs implement strict closed-loop management of imported strawberry seedlings that are conditionally removed. Through technical means such as registration and real-time tracking of transportation vehicles, seamless supervision is achieved from the port warehouse to the destination plantation.

During the critical period of spring plowing and preparation, we provide a collaborative and efficient regulatory service system to safeguard the 'settling down' of imported seedlings, "said Pan Xincong, head of the Customs Inspection Department at Qingdao Jiaodong Airport. The next step will be to continuously optimize regulatory services, while strictly adhering to the safety bottom line, to fully ensure the fast clearance and smooth supply of high-quality seedlings, and to support the development of modern agriculture with practical actions, serving the overall situation of rural revitalization and stable production and supply. (Xu Rundong/Text)