During the Yongsheng period, the watermelon was listed in advance to win a double harvest of word-of-mouth and income
This year, Jina Town, Yongsheng County, has successfully achieved a major breakthrough in watermelon planting through scientific and technological innovation and variety improvement strategies, making the town's watermelons enter the market more than half a month earlier than in previous years, seizing the sales opportunity. This initiative not only provides consumers with fresh, high-quality watermelon products to feast everyone's taste, but also allows local melon farmers to sell at a higher price, which effectively improves economic efficiency.
Around the Qingming Festival, the watermelon fields in the town of Qina have shown a busy scene. In the melon fields, hard-working melon farmers are busy screening and harvesting ripe watermelons, and the large, plump and attractive watermelons are carefully selected and continue to flow to the embrace of the market. An endless stream of purchasing vehicles shuttled through the field paths, showing the hot trend of the watermelon market.
At the watermelon sales points set up on both sides of the road, the mountains of watermelons have attracted the attention of many passers-by and vehicles, who have stopped to buy. Melon farmer Ruan Jinping introduced, her family planted 50 acres of watermelons this year, including two varieties of flower skin and black skin, of which flower skin watermelon is a newly introduced excellent variety, and black skin watermelon is a traditional variety that has been inherited for a long time, since sowing in October last year, now these two kinds of watermelons have entered the harvest period half a month ahead of schedule, and the yield is gratifying, with an average yield of more than 2 tons per mu. Since the watermelon harvest, her family has been able to supply the market with 2 to 3 tonnes of high-quality watermelons every day.
According to statistics, at present, the watermelons in Jinna Town are mainly sold to Lijiang, Dali, Kunming and other places in a combination of wholesale and retail, and about 100 tons of watermelons are continuously produced and exported to the market every day. This year, a total of more than 1,000 acres of watermelon have been planted in the town, and the watermelon industry has become the key pillar of the town's winter agriculture. Thanks to the unique local natural growing environment and climatic conditions, the watermelons produced in Jinna Town have unique quality and flavor, enjoy a good reputation in the market, and are deeply loved by consumers.
In particular, it is worth mentioning that the early listing of watermelon this year is not only an effective adjustment and optimization of the watermelon production cycle, but also an important step on the road of exploring the brand building of "watermelon" and promoting industrial upgrading.