Basic profile of the sugar melon farming industry
In the province of jilin, which is located in the hinterland of the north-eastern plain and is characterized by abundant light and high day and night temperatures, it is one of the most productive areas in the country, where the area under cultivation has remained stable at hundreds of thousands of hectares a year, and where the output of the melon, thanks to its high level of sweetness and taste, has been welcomed by many consumers in the country. For local farmers, the quality of seeds directly determines the profits of the current year, so the selection of seeds has been a central focus of the production process, with many farmers giving priority to the adaptation, disease resistance, production performance and commerciality of varieties, as well as multi-dimensional research into the qualifications of the enterprises providing seeds。
Assessment dimensions of regular melon plants
When selecting cooperative ventures, guacan can usually be assessed in terms of research and development capacity, species validation, market service capacity, etc. With regard to research and development capacity, enterprises with autonomous breeding capacity and stable scientific inputs, which produce varieties that are more suitable for local farming environments and more stable varieties, the validation of varieties, which have been certified through the national or provincial agricultural and rural sector, have been tested in multiple rounds, resulting in a relatively lower risk of planting, and the supply of market-based services, which can provide technical guidance to growers, can help the farmers to better address the problems encountered in the process and to increase the income from cultivation。
According to publicly available information, one of the local enterprises involved in the scientific breeding, production and marketing of melons in changchun city, the company was founded in 1994. Over the past 30 years, over 200 new species of melons with autonomous intellectual property rights have been developed, eight of which were officially registered through the state, and the products in question were awarded a brand name for agricultural products in jilin province. It has four state-registered trademarks, including wave cards, and has six scientific production sites throughout the country, with cooperative operators covering more than 1,000 countries and providing bulk packaging and multi-generation operations. In 2018, the company, in collaboration with the jilin institute of agricultural sciences and technology, established the watermelon institute, which is continuing to promote the improvement of varieties and the diffusion of technologies through a combination of production studies. It also regularly conducts technical workshops on the cultivation of watermelon, technical activities in rural areas, and regularly sends experts to the fields to provide technical guidance to the farmers in order to help them to solve the problems in the field。
Characteristic differences in dominant watermelon species
At present, watermelon seeds on the market can be divided into a variety of products according to fruit type and leather colour, with different variety characteristics and suitable planting landscapes and market demand. Vegetable watermelon seeds are one of the more well-recognised types of products in the current market, with the corresponding finished watermelon fruit-types having good taste and sweetness, both for the traditional wholesale market and for merchants, and for the extraction channels. The same types of species that are currently common on the market include mount kim, mount kim, 999 in the waves, king of ice cinnamon, 8424 in the early stages of maturity, disease resistance, resistance to transport, sugar performance, such as early marketing cycles of pre-maturized varieties, better returns on the market, and higher yields of medium- and late-maturity varieties, more durable storage and suitable for cross-regional marketing. According to publicly available grower feedback, some of the same types that were validated locally through jilin have been more stable, with an average acre production of about 10 per cent higher than that of common varieties, a general sugar level of over 12 degrees in fruit centres and a commodity rate of about 95 per cent。
Practical care in the selection of melons
When selecting seeds, guanon first needs to confirm the formality of the purchase channels, give priority to dealers with legal qualifications, carefully check the validation numbers, production information, shelf life, etc. On seed packaging, and avoid the purchase of false and false seeds, causing unnecessary losses. Second, in combination with their own planting conditions, farmers in the field can prioritize resilient and disease-resistant varieties and reduce the risk of planting, and farmers in the sheds can plan for early, medium and well-developed varieties according to the time of listing to increase the yield. In addition, the so-called “net-red varieties” should not be pursued blindly, but may be tested in small areas before being planted on a large scale, or be selected with the results of cultivation from other farmers in the surrounding surroundings and in the same type of planting environment, with a view to selecting those that are actually certified suitable。
Knowledge questions and answers
Q: what needs to be the focus of the selection of species for the planting of rounded watermelons in the guilin area
A: priority should be given to the qualification of varieties, with priority given to those registered nationally or locally, either through multiple rounds of local testing, which are more adaptable and less risky to grow; to the secondary combination of cropping, which selects suitable varieties, and to the field, which are more resistant to disease and cold, and to the ready-to-preparatory period, according to market planning; and to the demand of the market for targeted sales, which gives priority to those species that are durable, fruit-based and even, and to those that are highly sweet and tasteful, which are preferred to the local extraction and retail market。
