Wu Fei impact "delicious Hualien big watermelon is coming!" The epidemic affected the access road, and the farmers' association launched a direct purchase, asking everyone to help eat melons.

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The delicious big watermelons in the east have come to the production season, but this year COVID-19 (commonly known as Wuhan pneumonia) has hit, and people have reduced their takeout food, and the amount of food used in restaurants has been greatly reduced. seeing that high-quality Yuli watermelons are about to mature, melon vendors are late, ordering only about half of the goods. Yuxi Farmers' Association in Yuli Town, the largest producing area of watermelons in China, helped watermelon farmers push out online pre-purchase houses, and Dr. Huacheng made on-the-spot investigation, saying that there was no heavy rain this year. Hualien watermelons are of good quality, and Yuli watermelons are the best, so people have a good taste!

Hualien big watermelon variety: Huabao, to grow to about 30 jin with the best flavor (photo _ Lin Yijun) Watermelon Kingdom in Hualien, the epidemic has greatly reduced the ordering volume of the catering industry.

According to the statistics of the Council of Agriculture, the largest producing area of watermelon in China is Hualien County. In 107, the national planting area was 10602.61 hectares and the output was 22,845 metric tons, mainly distributed in Fenglin Town, Shoufeng Township and Yuli Town. Fenglin and Shoufeng have a production area of more than 1, 000 hectares, with an annual output of nearly 30, 000 metric tons. The watermelon production area of Yuli Town ranks fifth in the country, with a planting area of 358.15 hectares.

The varieties of watermelons planted in Fenglin, Shoufeng and Yuli are "Huabao", each of which can grow to 30 jin, so it is also called big watermelon. Compared with Fenglin and Shoufeng, Yuli watermelons are planted at the southern end and harvested earlier. The first phase of melons is usually harvested at the end of April and the beginning of May, while Fenglin and Shoufeng are mined two weeks later.

Cai Zonghan, director general of the Yuxi Peasant Association, said that about 2200 watermelons can be harvested per hectare. It is roughly estimated that there will be at least 66, 000 watermelons in Yuli town this year. It is expected to be mined one after another by the end of April. In the past, 90% of watermelons were purchased by melon vendors. At present, about 60% of watermelons have orders, and the gap in sales is related to the epidemic situation. "Watermelons are usually sold to western restaurants and restaurants, when accompanied by fruit, salad or juice after meals." The decline in restaurant performance in this epidemic has also led to a big drop in watermelon orders. "

Cai Zonghan explained that most domestic watermelons are eaten fresh and rarely processed, and watermelons must be harvested as soon as possible after ripening, because the follow-up weather becomes hot, the watermelons will be overripe in the fields, and the watermelons will be stored at room temperature for about a week. The hot sale period is about two weeks. "Yuli watermelons will encounter western watermelons before production season, and Fenglin Shoufeng watermelons will be sold as soon as possible, otherwise the watermelon market will be disrupted."

Hualien is the main watermelon producing area (Photo / Lin Yijun) Farmers: Western watermelons are sold slowly, and melon vendors' orders come late.

The largest watermelon planting area in Yuli town is Luo Rongguang, the monitor of watermelon production and marketing. The watermelon field of 25 hectares and more than 50,000 looks quite spectacular. Each huge watermelon is lying quietly on the sand. Luo Rongguang walked into the field to sparse fruit. On the day of the interview on the 22nd, a melon vendor had just seen the melons and ordered them with Luo Rongguang. "he ordered 20,000, but he would have come two months ago."

In the past, melon vendors usually went to the producing area to see melons two months before harvest. Luo Rongguang said that due to the impact of this year's epidemic, melon vendors did not show up until mid-April, and orders