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Watermelons have been on the market one after another since the beginning of May. This is the first batch of watermelons on the market this year. How is the market?

Lanwan Village, Haokou Town, Qianjiang City, is a professional village for watermelon planting. Today, Master Zheng, a melon farmer, is selling melons. Master Zheng told the reporter that the current price is 65 cents per jin, and he will probably sell 4000 jin today.

Master Zheng has been growing watermelons for more than ten years, and his family has five greenhouses with a total of 7 mu of land. for an old style like him, the yield of watermelons is naturally good.

Precocious watermelons are on the market early and the price is good, but since last year, precocious watermelons have not been so popular.

Master Zheng said: "Last year's price was good in the early stage, but not in the later stage." The year before last, the price was good, and at worst it could be sold for one yuan or one jin. "

Master Zheng's watermelons went on sale on May 5 this year. Like last year, the price was good at the beginning, with a price of 1.50 yuan per catty, but with the passage of time, the price became lower and lower. He sold 50 cents in the previous two days, and picked up a little bit in the past two days. At this time in previous years, the price of melons can reach 1.2 yuan. Why is it that the price of melons this year is only half that of the year before last?

Muskmelon expert teacher Li Ping analyzed: "there are too many Rain Water this year, and the temperature is also very low." People have no desire to eat melons, so it is difficult to sell watermelons. "

Master Zheng also said: "to sell watermelons is to sell the weather. The hotter the weather, the easier it is to sell melons."

In addition, there is another reason for the price decline, that is, affected by the invasion of melons from other places, southern watermelons and melons on our side have been listed at the same time.

Affected by these two aspects, the price of watermelon continues to decline this year. In Lanwan Village, vendors come to buy watermelons every day. Master Su is a melon peddler from Jingzhou. Today he is going to pull away 12,000 jin of watermelons here.

Master Su is a vendor in the two lakes agricultural products market in Jingzhou. after pulling melons to the two lakes agricultural products market in Jingzhou, he wholesale them to the surrounding counties and cities, weighing more than 10,000 jin a day, and then go to the fields to transfer goods.

In Lanwan Village, the precocious watermelons of many villagers have been sold out, and the watermelons in Master Zheng's fields have come to an end when they have sold out. Looking back on this season of watermelons, Master Zheng said that he had experienced the high prices of watermelons, but also had the helplessness of indulging in low prices, but taken together, he was basically satisfied.

After selling this season of melons, Master Zheng will plant another season of late-ripening watermelons in July. He is very confident about the watermelon market in the later period. So, will the later watermelon market be like what Master Zheng said?

Muskmelon expert teacher Li Ping analyzed: "from now on, prices will rise steadily by June 20." Because at present, the precocious melon is coming to an end, while the field land watermelon has not yet been put on the market, resulting in a gap period. As long as the weather is fine recently, the price will go up. "

As for the market of mid-and late-ripening watermelons this year, Mr. Li said he was very optimistic. This is mainly because the yield of late-maturing watermelons this year will be lower than in previous years.

Teacher Li said: "there are so many Rain Water this year that the fruit setting of land watermelons has been greatly affected. In addition, diseases have now emerged."

Limited production, coupled with the normal weather, the market demand will certainly not be bad. Teacher Li predicts that by July, the price of seedless watermelons in Daejeon may be ideal.

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Whether this melon farmer makes money or not depends on the face of God. However, it is reported that the El Ni ñ o phenomenon is almost over. We also look forward to a good harvest for melon farmers.

(reporter Yuan Xinlu Zhou Beibei)

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