Shipment of watermelons begins as soon as possible Northern Kumamoto Prefecture

Shipments of watermelons have already begun in northern Kumamoto Prefecture.

In Uekimachi, Kita-ku, Kumamoto City and Yamaga City, watermelons shipped from spring to early summer are actively produced, and 406 farmers grow them in their greenhouses.

This season, shipping work began on the 25th, and a total of 1,300 large watermelons were brought into the JA Kamoto fruit sorting plant from two local farmers.

After visually checking the watermelon for scratches, the employees checked the sugar content and whether there were any cavities with a special device and packed it in a box.

According to JA, watermelons weigh about 5 kg at this time of the year, but this season it was sunny from the beginning of the year to this month, so it weighs about 6 kg and has a sweet finish. That is.

Hiroshi Maeda, Chairman of the JA Kamoto Horticultural Subcommittee, said, "It's the best result of being exposed to the sun. I did.

Shipments of JA Kamoto watermelons will continue until the end of June to markets nationwide such as Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka, and this season we expect to ship about 1.75 million balls, which is about the same as last year.