The Chinese have eaten the world's most melon!Why do foreigners rarely eat watermelon

On this hot summer, the fairy combination of "iced watermelon+air conditioning" is simply a must -have for heat.

According to monitoring data of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Ministry, since the beginning of March in late March, the sales volume has gradually risen, and the online fruit consumer market has also ushered in a consumption boom.

Meituan's preferential data show that since the listing of watermelons, consumers' demand for watermelon has gradually increased, and the sales of watermelon sales have grown rapidly. From May 23rd to May 29th, the week of May, the sales of watermelons increased by nearly 200%. Among them, the overall sales volume of "black beauty" watermelon increased the fastest year-on-year, an increase of more than 50%year-on-year.

China's watermelon output is amazing

China is both a strong consumption country and a large watermelon production country.

According to the National Bureau of Statistics and the United Nations Database Statistics, in 2020, China's watermelon planting area accounted for nearly half of the world's watermelon planting area, reaching 46.04%, which is the world's largest watermelon production country and consumer country.

According to the global statistics database Statista, the output of watermelon from 2010 to 2020 has exceeded 60 million tons. The second largest watermelon produces Turkey, but its output is far less than one -tenth of China. China's fault -type data makes other countries be overwhelmed. This amazing output is that even the people who eat melon must be shocked!

Picture source: Statista official website

Why do foreigners rarely eat watermelon?

According to statistics, the Chinese people eat as high as 16 billion watermelons each year, and an average of 100 pounds per person per year.

In foreign film and television films, watermelon is rarely seen. Foreigners do not like to eat watermelon. Most of the reasons are that the price is too expensive ...

Data show that in Washington and New York, the production price of US watermelon prepared for exports is about $ 6.91 (about RMB 46).

Netizens shared their bad experiences to buy melon overseas.

"Swiss supermarket watermelon, 35RMB 1/8 scoop."

"German watermelon is so expensive. I bought 28 euros. Actually 10 euros are money. A watermelon is enough to buy four pounds of ribs."

"I am expensive in New Zealand's watermelon, and I was shocked by my chin. In winter, I was even more exaggerated 5.99/kg. I bought a big watermelon+a box of cherry last time and spent 120 New Zealand dollars ..."

Watermelon is also famous in Japan and South Korea.

The retrieval results of the South Korean portal "Naver" showed that a retail trademark price of about 5 kg of watermelon was sold for sale by a retail trademark price of 26,900 won (about 140 yuan).

In Japan, the common variety of watermelon is generally 2-3000 yen, which is about 150 yuan.

And foreign melon is not necessarily delicious.

Recently, the local specialty watermelon in Shantong Temple, Japan, was listed on the market. The watermelon edge was 18 cm long and the price was about 15,000 yen, which was approximately RMB 750.

It is reported that although this square watermelon is expensive, it is picked before it is completely mature.

This situation is also common in European countries.

As global inflation has continued to rise recently, food prices are accelerating. Facing the price of high fruit, foreign netizens have also opened the Tucao mode ...

I love to eat watermelon, but it is not a watermelon of $ 12.99 (≈87 yuan)! Last summer, the price of watermelon was between 3.99 and $ 4.99, but this year reached $ 9.99. I don't have watermelon this year.

too crazy. If you want to take care of a family and have so much money, you will have no doubt to choose ribs instead of watermelon. The price of these two things is really interesting.

It is not easy to eat a healthy diet when budget is tight. A small watermelon is 2.68 pounds (≈22 yuan), and the same price can buy 8 bags of egg milk biscuits.

Thanks to her freedom to eat melon

The Chinese people realized that "freedom of eating melon" cannot be separated from Academician Wu Mingzhu who is still sticking to the first line of scientific research. In the 1950s, Academician Wu took the initiative to invite him, go to Xinjiang, and exhaust his heart to choose melon.

Picture source: Hittero Research Center of Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences

In 1930, Wu Mingzhu was born in Wuhan, Hubei. In 1953, she graduated from the Gardening Department of the Southwest Academy of Agricultural College. Yuan Longping, the "father of Chinese hybrid rice", was an alumni of the same class.

Picture source: screenshot of CCTV agriculture and rural videos

The working conditions in Xinjiang are very difficult, but Wu Mingzhu and colleagues spent 3 years, traveled to more than 300 local production teams, surveyed a piece of melon and a land, and finally collected more than 100 materials. Later basic materials for breeding.

Picture source: Screenshot of CCTV three rural videos ‍

In this road of cultivation, Academician Wu Mingzhu walked for more than 50 years.

Now that Grandma Wu was not recognized by Alzheimer's disease, when the old man took the watermelon that the medical staff brought for her, the memory was instantly awakened. She still remembers the melon that she can't put in her life:

"Watermelon 8424 I like the most, and my masterpiece. Because it looks good, the fruit is good, and it is delicious."

A data for 2018 shows that with the planting area of the watermelon of 2 million hectares and the output value of over 2 trillion yuan per year, China ranks first in the world's first in the production and consumption of watermelon.It can be said that Wu Mingzhu used the time of more than half a century to exhaust his life -threatening breeding of melon species, build my country's leading melon breeding technology platform, and continuously expanded the high -quality Sweet melon "family", and in the country's "opening branches and dispersing branches and scattered branches, Ye ", realize the" freedom of eating melon "by Chinese people.(Edit Li Chuang) Source: Shangguan News

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