In the middle of summer, holding a tooth of watermelon and taking a bite of the juicy red gourd, the comfort and coolness of instantly quenching thirst are the most comfortable things for melon lovers in the scorching sun. Nowadays, the dry sand watermelons in Shaliang Village, Dongwan Town, Jingyuan County are ripe one after another, and they are about to enter the harvest period.
Walking into the dry sand watermelon planting base in Shaliang Village, the green melon vines spread all over the melon field, and the round watermelons grow along the melon vines, verdant and green, full and round, and the growth is very gratifying.
It is understood that the watermelon planting area of Shaliang Village is more than 1,200 mu, and the yield per mu is about 3,000 catties. The unique local climatic conditions and sandy soil have created a dry sand watermelon with thick seeds, less seeds, rich juice, sweet and delicious, which is favored by the market and is mainly sold to the surrounding areas of Jingyuan.
Watermelons grow "sweet" days and broaden the road for the masses to get rich. In recent years, Shaliang Village, Dongwan Town, Jingyuan County, has taken the development of characteristic industries such as dry sand watermelon as an important starting point for adjusting the structure of agricultural industry and promoting the increase of income of the masses, and adopted the production and operation mode of "cooperatives + farmers" to promote the planting of more than 1,000 acres of dry sand watermelon, so as to truly make dry sand watermelon a "sweet industry" to help rural revitalization.
Jingyuan County Rong Media Center reporter Yang Jingjing Yu Ziyu