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“Shanghai Watermelon Unsaleable Watermelon Farmers Ask for Help” has become a hot search topic | Shanghai is cleared |

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“Shanghai Watermelon Unsaleable Watermelon Farmers Ask for Help” has become a hot search topic | Shanghai is cleared |

[Epoch Times, May 23, 2022](Comprehensive report by The Epoch Times reporter Zhao Fenghua) Extreme zero epidemic prevention has caused disasters to people’s livelihood. Under the closure of Shanghai, watermelons were unsalable, and melon farmers urgently asked for help. At the same time, Shanghai citizens could not buy melons, nor could they afford melons. On May 23, “Shanghai watermelon unsalable melon farmers help” was listed on Weibo’s hot search list, arousing heated discussions among netizens.

According to China Youth Daily, a Chinese media outlet, on May 22, the 1.2 million jin “Nanhui 8424” watermelon in Pudong New Area, Shanghai was ripe, but there was no market for it.

There are nearly 20 melon farmers who turned to reporters for help. According to farmers, they have planted 290 mu of watermelon this year. It is estimated that the yield of watermelon per mu is about 4,000 jin. This year, there is sufficient sunshine and high temperature, and the harvest and growth are better than in previous years.

At present, the first crop of watermelons has matured, but no purchasers have come to buy them. The melon farmers are very anxious. In previous years, their watermelons did not worry about selling. Every year around mid-April, buyers and cooperatives would come to the field for wholesale and purchase. When the market was good, they could sell for 7 yuan per catty (RMB, the same below).

“However, this year, not a single vendor can get in, and we can’t get out,” a merchant said. After Shanghai implemented the epidemic blockade, some main roads entering and leaving the fields were interrupted and “blocked by large stones weighing thousands of pounds.” In order to take care of and take care of the watermelon seedlings, they eat and live in the melon shed.

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The farmer said that after planting watermelons for more than 20 years, it was the first time that the watermelons were ripe but could not be sold.

The farmer said that he thought that Shanghai would be unblocked on May 21, but he has not heard any news from the buyers. After inquiring, he found out that the buyers and cooperatives have also encountered difficulties this year. stay home”.

A head of a local fruit and vegetable cooperative told China Youth Daily that they have long cooperated with local melon farmers to purchase watermelons, but he himself is still locked up at home.

The person in charge said that this year’s watermelons were not sold well. On the one hand, because there was no market, some major supermarket customers did not purchase them;

The melon farmer Zhumai from Taizhou, Zhejiang Province kept wiping tears. After the closure of Pudong, Zhu Mailian and his family ate and lived in a melon shed. They got up around 4 in the morning every day and were often busy until 10 at night. These days, she couldn’t buy vegetables, and lived on pickled bamboo shoots and rice brought from her hometown.

This year, their family took out a loan of more than 300,000 yuan to build a shed to grow melons. Unexpectedly, when Shanghai was locked down, the watermelons were unsalable. These days, she is looking forward to the unblocking every day, hoping that after the unblocking, it will be able to open up sales.

If it can’t be sold for another week, the 290 acres of watermelons will “die of old age”. Several melon farmers said that it was completely wasted at that time and could only rot in the ground. At the same time, watermelons are in demand on the shelves of Shanghai malls, and they are expensive.

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Some netizens said that the price of watermelons in the Shanghai market is ridiculously expensive. The netizen posted a bid list, a “8424 watermelon” over 3 kilograms was priced at 49.90 yuan, and more than 4 kilograms sold for 62.90 yuan, and it was very popular and was being replenished.

Shanghai watermelons are unsalable, and at the same time, the market is out of stock. On May 23, the entry “Shanghai watermelon unsalable melon farmers ask for help” appeared on Weibo’s hot search, causing heated discussions among netizens.

Some netizens said, “Don’t you think it’s ironic to rush to the top of netizens’ hot search? The melon farmers can’t sell it, the common people can’t buy it, and the circulating ones can’t afford it. What’s the surname of SH (Shanghai)?”

Some netizens left a message, “The residents here are too expensive to eat, and the watermelon farmers over there are unsalable! This prosperous world is as you and I see it.”

Another netizen said, “In the early days of the epidemic in Shanghai, local vegetable farmers had a lot of rotten vegetables. Citizens bought high-priced vegetables. Now they have replaced them with watermelons. The actual problem has not been effectively improved after two months.”

More netizens sighed: “A grain of sand of the times falls on everyone’s head, and it is a mountain.”

Responsible editor: Gao Jing#

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