Abstract
California produces nearly 90% of U.S. strawberries, and its nursery industry supplies transplants to growers nationwide and globally. This study combines a literature review with interviews from three California nursery firms to examine industry challenges and evaluate whether Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) technology could complement existing propagation systems. The sector faces mounting pressures including disease risks, labor shortages, supply chain complexity, climate variability affecting chilling accumulation, and uncertainty surrounding potential methyl bromide phase-out. While CEA systems are integrated into European strawberry nurseries, California’s use remains limited to early propagation stages. Evidence suggests CEA technologies could potentially reduce disease transmission and weather-related vulnerabilities at certain supply chain points. However, significant barriers limit adoption, including high capital requirements, skilled labor scarcity, challenges scaling to meet production volumes, and insufficient economic data. While CEA may offer targeted applications as a complementary tool, fundamental questions about scalability, economics, and integration into existing production systems require further research.
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California supplies nearly 90% of U.S. strawberries.
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e0“California produces nearly 90% of U.S. strawberries”
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California strawberry nurseries currently use CEA mainly in early propagation.
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- Strawberry
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- use remains limited to early propagation stagese0
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- Californiae0
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e0“California’s use remains limited to early propagation stages”
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CEA could potentially reduce disease transmission in strawberry propagation.
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- StrawberryFragaria ×ananassat0
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- CEA technologiese0
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- disease transmissione0
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- reducee0
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- could potentiallye0
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e0“CEA technologies could potentially reduce disease transmission and weather-related vulnerabilities at certain supply chain points”
t0“The California Strawberry Nursery Industry”
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CEA could potentially reduce weather vulnerability in strawberry propagation.
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- StrawberryFragaria ×ananassat0
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- CEA technologiese0
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- weather-related vulnerabilitiese0
- Direction
- reducee0
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- at certain supply chain pointse0
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e0“CEA technologies could potentially reduce disease transmission and weather-related vulnerabilities at certain supply chain points”
t0“The California Strawberry Nursery Industry”
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Capital requirements, skilled labor scarcity, scaling difficulties and insufficient economic data limit nursery adoption of CEA.
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- StrawberryFragaria ×ananassat0
- Outcome
- barriers limit adoptione0
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e0“significant barriers limit adoption, including high capital requirements, skilled labor scarcity, challenges scaling to meet production volumes, and insufficient economic data”
t0“The California Strawberry Nursery Industry”
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The authors consider targeted CEA applications complementary to existing strawberry propagation systems.
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- StrawberryFragaria ×ananassat0
- Outcome
- targeted applications as a complementary toole0
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e0“CEA may offer targeted applications as a complementary tool”
t0“The California Strawberry Nursery Industry”
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