East China"s Jiangsu province saw the bustling scene of farmers attending to fruit trees that are blooming in various parts of the province.

At Lanhui Farm in Zhangxi Community, Jiangning District of Nanjing, blueberry trees were swaying in the wind. In order to ensure that some varieties of blueberries will be supplied to the market recently, technicians have strengthened management through artificial fruit thinning, bee pollination, integrated irrigation with fertilizer and water, and unmanned plant protection so that many blueberry trees have begun to bear fruit.

"You can see that this blueberry has this small green fruit, which will mature around May 20th. We need to detect the occurrence of pests and diseases to prevent aphids and gray mold," said Zhou Yao, Blueberry Planting Technician.

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"Our blueberry farm covers an area of over 300 mu and has planted seven varieties. The 90000 to 100000 blueberry trees are divided into early maturing, medium maturing, and late maturing varieties. Blueberries start to be supplied to the market around May 20th every year and will continue to be marketed until the end of July and early August. This year"s yield is expected to be around 90000 kilograms," said Zhang Yun, Director of Nanjing Fulant Blueberry Planting Professional Cooperative.

In the apple orchard of Yanghe New Area in Suqian city, fruit farmers are pruning, brushing buds, and thinning flowers to improve fruit setting rate.

Apples are not good at self pollination, so that orchid has introduced over 20 million Italian bees to help fruit farmers to strengthen their pollination of apples. The pollination period will be completed within one week.

"We expect early maturing varieties to be available on the market in late August. The late maturing Fuji apples are expected to be available to the market on November 20th. We expect a yield of 3 to 3.5 tons per mu, and the overall yield will be around 10000 tons," said Li Yan, Head of apple orchard of Yanghe New Area in Suqian city.

Pear blossoms are blooming in Hengbei Village, Dafeng District, Yancheng City, attracting tourists to appreciate the blooming flowers in spring.

During the Pear Blossom Festival, Hengbei Village held a variety of tourism activities, allowing tourists to experience the beautiful countryside, taste rural culture, experience fun sports, soak in natural hot springs, and enjoy the good holiday time.

"The pear blossom looks particularly beautiful. I think this place is very suitable for tourism, with fresh air and a beautiful environment," said a tourist.

In recent years, Hengbei Village has formed a new path for the agricultural tourism industry to help strengthen the village and enrich the people by implementing the concept of green development, emphasizing both protection and governance, synchronizing construction and greening, coordinating economy and ecology, and integrating leisure agriculture and rural tourism.

"We focus on the goal of ecological and livable rural tourism in pear orchards, cultivating a four-season tourism layout that showcases spring flowers, summer trees, green autumn fruits, and winter springs, as well as a rural tourism feature that integrates flower appreciation, leisure farming, hot spring picking, vacation, research, and travel," said Liu Xueyan, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Hengbei Village, Dafeng District, Yancheng City.