Today when it comes to the king of fruits, everyone knows that durian, durian in the fruit of the king of the hegemony, one is because it is the second year is because it is expensive, but many people may not know the world's recognized king of fruits it is not durian, but watermelon, you may feel that it is not right, watermelon is so cheap all over the street, how can it be more expensive than durian, that asked the right China does not recognize the supremacy of watermelon, it is because it is cheap, but do you know what the price of foreign watermelon is,
A watermelon of about ten pounds in South Korea will be sold for about 140 yuan,
And Japan is more exaggerated a watermelon can sell more than 750 yuan, and Chinese watermelon has not always been so cheap, he was once a luxury jewelry, the average person can not afford to eat, watermelon is introduced from Central Asia to Xinjiang, at that time in addition to the emperor around the group of people, people in other provinces can not eat watermelon, and later other provinces began to plant, but the yield is extremely low, even in the sixties and seventies of the world, eating watermelon is also a luxury, but now China has to eat more than 16 billion watermelons every year, China's watermelon production accounts for seventy percent of the world, who let us eat so cheap now, want to eat watermelon that, that thanks to a person, Wu Mingzhu (January 3, 1930 -), born in Wuhan, Hubei Province, graduated from Southwest Agricultural College,[1] horticultural experts, the pioneer of Xinjiang sweet watermelon breeding cause, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, currently a researcher of the Cantaloupe Research Center of the Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, sorted out 44 melon varieties, and established archives for improvement and cultivation. She dedicated her life to that land, and she is our worthy person.