Heart-shaped mandarin
Japan
Tuesday 15 September 2015
FJ
To attract consumers, Japanese farmers now offer heart-shaped mandarin .
Japanese are known for the passion of the fruit.
Consumers can also purchase mandarins heart shaped . A form not really natural but possible thanks to the ingenuity of Japanese farmers .
Farmers have developed special presses V-shaped , made ??of wooden planks and metal tubes. Inserting within this "tool" the fruit during growth .
But all fruits can not produce mandarins heart shaped . The success rate registered last season was only 250 heart-shaped fruit on 400 .
source : asian age com