Watermelon on the market, Fengshoule

At present, it is Shengtai Planting Professional Cooperative in Guofu Village, Daxin Town, Wuhe County, Bengbu City, Anhui Province that has reaped a bumper harvest of watermelon. Entering the base of the cooperative, the lush green vines “lay” full of round and smooth large watermelons, which was very pleasing. The farmers are busy picking, transporting, and loading, and the fields are bustling with activity.

This year’s harvest is quite good. This car is being pulled to Bengbu, weighing around 3000 kilograms per car. Since its launch at the beginning of this month, it has employed an average of 6-8 people per day, mainly to sell to surrounding counties and cities. These are all old customers, and the sales are basically not difficult, “said Jia, the leader of getting rich and the person in charge of the base, happily.

After understanding, Shengtai Planting Professional Cooperative mainly grows excellent varieties such as watermelon “8424” and “Meidu”, using efficient planting techniques such as “greenhouse+plastic film coverage”. The watermelons produced are sweet, crispy, and tender, weighing around 10 pounds for the larger ones and 6 pounds for the smaller ones. They have received widespread praise from customers. After a good harvest of watermelons, they continue to use the advantages of the greenhouse to rotate winter vegetables, strawberries, and other crops, and have embarked on a new path of industrial development that “both winter and summer melons and vegetables can be harvested”, While assisting in the abundant harvest of the agricultural industry, it has also driven the employment demand of surrounding people.

In recent years, Daxin Town has been constantly optimizing the business environment, giving full play to the land benefits, encouraging and guiding villages to develop watermelon, peach, sheep’s horn honey, Shine Muscat honey and other characteristic planting in line with local conditions, and promoting rural revitalization with industrial revitalization to achieve agricultural production and farmers’ income.