Spring returns to the earth, and all things recover. On 9 march, li fook ling, a villager in east jung village, planted watermelon seedlings in huemin county, shandong province, in the town of magua. This watermelon is growing with his hopes for a new year。
There are four acres of sheds in the liforling family that can produce watermelons, melons, spinach packs and rotations in a year, so repeatedly." the watermelon price was good last year, and it was a pound more. That's a good price."
The mahjong town of huemin county, which is located in the city of zine river, with the advantage of irrigated soil and yellow river water, has grown from sporadic farming to a chain-wide cluster of specialty industries, with the following titles: “one village one” model town, “one village one” country-wide specialty industry of 1 billion yuan, and “magic watermelon” successfully certified the national agricultural geographical marker and the national geographic mark protection product as a prominent agricultural card for lubei。
Cultivation of watermelons in mahjong town began in 1982 and took place in four stages of development. In 1991, a large wholesale market was established in chowangua, providing access to out-of-market outlets; in 1993, spring-heating sheds were expanded to break seasonal constraints; in 2000, 30,000 acres were cultivated, covering 72 administrative villages throughout the town. In 2018, the seedling revitalization programme was launched, creating 280 smart greenhouses, with an annual capacity of more than 300 million seedlings, providing seedlings to 26 provinces throughout the country and exporting them to south-east asia, to solve the problem of seedling “crawling”。
At present, the area under watermelon cultivation in massachusetts is stable at 56,000 acres, with an annual production of 975,000 tons, with high-quality varieties such as the king of sweets, 2k, 4k, and ice sugarseeds, with sugar of more than 14 degrees. Promotion of a three-and-a-four harvest model with an acre yield of between $40,000 and $60,000. The town has 67 specialty cooperatives for guerilla, with over 90 per cent of the farmers enrolled, and has introduced the “cooperative + base + farmer + order” model, which provides seedling, technical and marketing services. On-line and off-line co-operation, the 48-hour cold chain reaches more than 30 cities, such as kyinzu, hong kong, and directly leads to employment of 20,000-40,000 people, with an increase of more than $3,000 per farmer per year and an increase of $30,000 for 40 per cent of participating households。
In recent years, mit has continued to strengthen its branding and standardization, organizing pick-up festivals, the king of gua competitions to increase its impact, and in 2025, the "standarding pilot of the all-industrial chain of the smelter west" project was approved at the provincial level to build a whole-process standard system from selection to sale. From a seed to a landmark, from the field to the national market, the mahjong watermelon has been upgraded and branded in a chain, moving out of the path of rural renewal, which is distinct and of mass benefit。
