Strawberry cultivation area reaches 585 hectares in Taiwan. Annual demand for seedlings is nearly 30 million plants. However, due to the high temperature and humidity during growing seedling, the seedlings are easily infected with pathogens such as anthracnose and leaf blight. These diseases cause significant losses in field production. This project aims to achieve the effect of strengthening seedlings and improving quality through modular cultivation management operations, guide the industry to transform into producing healthy seedlings, and supply farmers for cultivation, thereby reducing the problem of excessive intensive use of pesticides to prevent and control strawberry diseases. Currently, we have completed the seedling site management checklist for 7 operators and provided a self-checklist to help operators systematically self-check the five key management checkpoints, including seedling source, water source management, material management, environmental control, and personnel management; and completed the evaluation of seedling medium formulation and strawberry seedling health effect.

▲Fig. 1 Self-assessment form for strawberry seedling nurseries.

▲Fig. 2 Strawberry seedlings development under different medium formulations.