Beijing: melon cushion to solve the problem of "two-faced melon"

"the melon pads you developed are really good. Melons are easy to sell. All melons in my family are sold out." Zhu Jun, a melon farmer in Xiaozhubao Village, Shunyi District, Beijing, was so happy that he could not keep his mouth shut when he saw the technicians at the city's agricultural technology extension station.

The reporter walked into the greenhouse of Zhu Yong, another melon farmer, and his family also had a bed of picked small watermelons planted late. There was a transparent plastic sheet under each melon, and the watermelons lay comfortably in it.

Chen Yanli, an agronomist at the Agricultural Technology extension Station, said that small watermelons are now grown in greenhouses in Shunyi, and the shady side is prone to macular patches. In the middle and later stages of growth, each watermelon is routinely "turned" so that both sides of the fruit are lit evenly, thus reducing the decay rate, but "turning melon" is time-consuming and laborious, and it is easy to damage the plant, so generally melon farmers do not take measures, and the price of watermelon is also lower than that of hanging vines.

In order to increase the income of watermelon growers, the promotion station made a new type of special watermelon cushion, which completely solved the problem of "two-sided melon" cultivation in facility watermelon field. Melon pad also obtained a national patent, made of PVC material, the size is also based on the planting of small watermelon varieties design, even the above small protuberances are designed to take into account the angle of light reflection.

At the end of pollination and the process of determining the melon, the melon pad is placed in the lower part of the melon, and the fruit can be isolated from the ground surface without "turning the melon", which plays the role of moisture-proof and ventilation, so that the lower part of the fruit can fully accept the sun, and the color of the fruit surface is uniform. It can not only improve the marketability, but also effectively prevent the infection of diseases and insect pests on the surface of watermelon fruit.

Zhu Jun calculated that the new melon pad can be reused, with a cost of 0.40 yuan, which can be used for at least 5 to 8 years, and about 2400 pieces of land per mu, which can be recovered in the same year. Each melon is 1.5 kilograms, which is 0.2 yuan and 0.3 yuan more per kilogram than in the past, and generally the income per mu can be increased by more than 800 yuan.

?

?