It's hot and hot for the summer. It's watermelon season. In our country, watermelon cultivation currently amounts to more than 20 million acres, with annual production stabilizing at around 60 million tons, which, according to the food and agriculture organization of the united nations (fao), accounts for about 60 per cent of the world's total and is arguably the world's largest producer and consumer of watermelon. By rough measure, you may not imagine that per capita consumption of watermelon in our country is nearly 100 pounds per year. How can i eat so many watermelons
Branding the watermelon
“8424 in the south” is one of the most popular watermelons in shanghai introduced by the team of wu myungju. These branded watermelons have been marked with an “identity card” — the 2d code for the “sun-farm chain” — since the moment the meadows fell。
The director of the cooperative specialized in agricultural production in vieta, yu, "8424 south shore" is a medium fruit type, usually between 6 and 12 pounds, with a taste of sweetness and a sense of impregnation, with sugar at 11 to 13 degrees. In mid-april, “southway 8424” began to take place, almost ending in mid-august。
In 2024, the market branded watermelon, which contributed 66. 4 per cent to the city-wide total. The city of shanghai has about 43,000 acres of watermelon cultivation this year, with total production projected at around 100,000 tons. But 100,000 tons of watermelon, of course, is not enough。
In shanghai, the largest wholesale market for fruits and the major bulking area, the international agricultural trade centre in the western suburbs, watermelons from many of the country's production sites are being remitted, guaranteeing uninterrupted supply over four seasons a year. As the only major centre in shanghai, the wholesale market, where fruit sells 50 per cent of the city-wide consumption, is located throughout the year。
Deputy managing director, international agricultural trade ltd., west coast, shanghai according to preliminary statistics, about two dozen provinces in the country will have watermelons here. The day of 2 july coincided with the time when the southern and northern melons were in large numbers on the market, reaching a total of 1,647 tons of watermelon, possibly 140 or so high。
Preliminary statistics show that in 2024, shanghaiers ate about 400,000 tons of watermelon。
Deputy managing director, international agricultural trading ltd., west shanghai: the habit of consumption in shanghai now, in terms of the volume of our transactions, tends to be more branded, to be smaller fruit-oriented, and to be extended to the status of small-scale quality products。
They're collecting "named" from all over the country for sale to the bay
During this period, watermelons have become “absolute players” in a number of large fruit-trading areas in guangdong, where, on average, about three of the 10 wholesalers are selling watermelons。
Since summer, the market for fruits and vegetables in the city of toung chau has sold an average of 350 tons of watermelon per day, up to a maximum of 670 tons per day, or 70,000 watermelon per day, per kilogram。
According to data from a freight logistics platform, around 200 million watermelons were received throughout 2024, making them the largest watermelons in the country, from which watermelons are transported across the country for rapid transit to the cities surrounding the bay of australia in port-au-prince for sale。
Zheng seung-fung, head of zheng feng fruit industries ltd., dong-chung city, started in hainan, january to march, then yunnan, then in jiangsu salt city in april to around june, in early july, in the north-west, gansu, ningxia, and then in october, we will return to the south, where we will have production in the first year。
