India's strawberry fields are dominated by Winter Dawn, Camarosa and Nabila — varieties bred for yield and transport. Japanese cultivars are bred for the plate. Here's what SAKURA and HARUHI do differently, and when to put each one on the pass.
The strawberry you know is younger than the steam engine. It began with five plants smuggled out of Chile in 1714 — and the cultivars that define it today were bred on three continents. A field guide to where strawberries come from, and where Japan fits.
ICHIGO doesn't airfreight berries from Japan. It plants Japanese cultivars in Maharashtra — Miyoshi & Co's SAKURA and HARUHI varieties — under Japanese agricultural supervision. Here's what that actually means on the plate.
