Summer is a season of fruits. In such a hot weather, in addition to cold drinks and desserts, fruits are a good choice, and in the summer fruit feast, Minqin melons are indispensable.
Cool, sweet and crunchy honeydew melon
The oval and delicate shape, the light yellow translucent color, the full and delicate flesh, as sweet as honey. Peel and bite lightly, the cool, crisp and sweet melon fragrance overflows between the lips and teeth, and the abundant juice crosses the throat, moisturizing the heart and spleen, which is the most affectionate sweetness in summer...... This is the sweet face of the coveted fruit world - Minqin melon.
Special location nourishes a unique sweetness
Minqin County is located in the northeast of the Hexi Corridor in Gansu Province, the lower reaches of the Shiyang River Basin, surrounded by the Tengger and Badain Jarin deserts on the east, west and north, the melons produced are delicate in flesh, high in sugar content, refreshing in juice and flavor, rich in aroma, and the sugar content in the center reaches 15%-18%, which has won the national "green food" certification.
The planting area of Minqin melon is 150,000 mu
As one of the golden producing areas of honeydew melon in China, Minqin melon has a long history of honeydew cultivation and has the reputation of "the hometown of Chinese honeydew melon". The planting scale of Minqin melon is stable at about 150,000 mu, with an annual output of more than 500,000 tons.
From late June to mid-September every year, there is a little hot and cool breeze, which is the season when the open-field melons are ripe, and even the air is filled with a sweet and attractive smell.
Rich variety, healthy and more beautiful
In the sixties of the twentieth century, Minqin County introduced a trial planting of white melon, which was successful, and the planting scale gradually expanded. Starting from a single cantaloupe variety, through continuous introduction, experiment, demonstration and promotion to the present, it has formed more than 100 varieties in five series, including yellow-skinned red-fleshed golden ruby, white-skinned green-fleshed white melon, reticulated Xizhou honey, small-fruited jade Jinxiang, and Yellow River honey.
Since ancient times, Minqin melon has the reputation of "fragrant and cool, well-known in Hexi", "look at Hangzhou under the scenery, taste melon on Minqin", and the saying of "Minqin melon is the best in the world" is widely spread in the market.
Soft and sweet honeydew melon
In addition to peeling and dicing melons and eating them directly, Minqin melons can also be eaten in a variety of creative and innovative ways, including making drinks, desserts and other delicacies.
Drink: Cut the melon into small pieces and stir it with yogurt and mineral water to make a melon yogurt drink; The melon is juiced and seasoned with a little sugar to make a refreshing juice.
Dessert: Honeydew melon is mixed with other fruits and topped with salad dressing to create a salad that creates a unique texture.
Other delicacies: honeydew melon mixed fried noodles, prepare a little fried wheat, hemp seeds and other mixed grinding fried noodles, honeydew melon cut in half, remove seeds, fried noodles into the melon stirring, eat a bite, sweet melon fragrance and faint wheat fragrance, dancing on the tip of the tongue, happiness blooms in the heart.
Honeydew melon mixed with fried noodles
Creative ways to eat: Cut cantaloupe into different shapes, such as boat shape or umbrella shape, and present it to friends of all ages to make it more interesting.
Field to tip of the tongue direct sales from the origin
The five major strains of Minqin melon have different types of varieties of early, middle and late ripening, large, medium and small fruit types, which can meet the needs of different consumers. Farmers have rich planting experience and diverse cultivation modes, and the product supply period is extended from mid-April of that year to late January of the following year, basically realizing the production pattern of "year-round production and four-season supply".
Minqin melon - golden rubb
As the "golden industry" of a rich and strong county, Minqin County has been building a quality brand of "Minqin melon" with the strength of the whole county to ensure the sustainable development of the melon industry.
"We have established a melon quality and safety traceability system, and implemented 'unified packaging, code supervision, and labeled listing', and unified packaging melon products account for more than 60% of the melon products on the market." Yao Jianyun, director of the Agricultural Products Quality Inspection and Testing Station of Minqin County Agriculture and Rural Bureau, introduced.
In order to convey this sweetness, Minqin County has introduced well-known e-commerce companies such as Alibaba and Jingdong, set up online and offline outlets in the production area, and sold them on the spot, forming a diversified marketing model of "professional market + enterprise + e-commerce" and "boxing + fine packaging + express delivery".
The sweet life belongs to every hardworking and intelligent person. When selecting melons that have reached maturity, melon farmers have to pick them carefully. In order to ensure that the melons have a good appearance and taste when they arrive, melon farmers choose to pick them when they are about 8 minutes ripe to avoid damage during transportation.
Reporter: Zhang Xiaofang, Fu Chengxuan
Source: Oasis Minqin client