Traditionally grown watermelons sell at high prices

"our melons are full of livestock and poultry fertilizer and oil dregs. Watermelons are naturally ripe, green and pollution-free, and the taste is very pure." Recently, in a melon field near Ru Liu Highway in Fengtun Village, Bandian Township, Runan County, Henan Province, Zhang Shouqing, an old melon craftsman, said while breaking open the watermelon for people to taste.

Zhang Shouqing, 71, was a famous melon grower when he was a "big collective." after contracting with output, he was hired by a big melon grower to manage melon fields because of "one skill in the body." he has worked as a "technical consultant" of watermelons in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, Shandong and other places.

In recent years, with the improvement of living standards, people pay more and more attention to food safety, and agricultural products grown by traditional methods are more and more popular. Many people in this village have eaten watermelons grown by old melon craftsmen in the past, but they still remember the taste of the melons, so they repeatedly mobilized the old melon craftsmen to "return to their old jobs" and promised to provide him with labor unconditionally in the process of growing watermelons. The old melon craftsman readily agreed, but at first he did not dare to "take a big step." Last year, he first planted one mu of watermelons to "test the water." unexpectedly, after the watermelons were ripe, they were picked by the people of this village. this year, he had the courage to plant 6 mu, and now he has begun to mature and appear on the market. the selling price of watermelons is 0.6 yuan per jin, 20 cents higher than other watermelons, and demand is still in short supply.

"A flower in a crop is so fat to be in charge of the house. My secret to growing watermelons is to fertilize them well. The planting density of watermelons is no more than 400 trees per mu. In strict accordance with the traditional method, only one melon is kept, which is easy to gather nutrients. The watermelons are big and delicious. Only when watermelons mature naturally after high temperature 'exercise' can the quality of watermelons be guaranteed. " Seeing his watermelons being scrambled, the old melon maker unreservedly taught the secrets to the melon buyers, hoping that more people would master traditional planting techniques, expand the planting area of traditional watermelons, and start the traditional watermelon brand in Bandian.

Feng Hongwei, our reporter Zhang Peiqi