Wuxi people eat 1100 tons of watermelon one day

On July 24, Futianli finished eating, sitting in an air-conditioned room and holding half a watermelon. I believe that everyone likes it. Yesterday, we learned from the Chaoyang Fruit Wholesale Market in Wuxi that as the weather continues to be hot, sales of watermelons have entered a peak period. The sales volume of watermelons this year is particularly good. The daily turnover of watermelons is about 1,100 tons, which is a 20% increase over the same period of previous years. about.

After entering the summer this year, Wuxi has experienced 18 hot days, hot weather, so that fruit sales have also increased significantly. Yesterday, reporters saw in the revitalization road, there are a total of 5 fruit shops, each shop entrance, are mainly watermelon, other fruit varieties are almost rare. In front of a fruit shop, a truck was parked and a truck of watermelons arrived.

"These days the business is so good that every day delivery is too late, yesterday shouted a car, today must add another car." A fruit shop owner told reporters that although there are a number of fruit stores along the way, but everyone's Business is good.

The business of the remaining few stores is not bad. The reporter found that the best shop can sell nearly 2,000 pounds of watermelon a day.

"The weather is too hot, everyone wants to buy some watermelon to solve the heat." The owner of another fruit shop said that now is the time of the year when the watermelon sales is the largest, but also when the watermelon is the cheapest, the cheapest as long as 0.8 One pound per dollar is also 50% lower than the Meiyu period.

Reporters found in the market, most of the current watermelon from Henan, Shandong, Anhui and other places, while there are some surrounding, such as Dongtang, Fuyang and other places of watermelon, the price of exotic watermelons are generally low, the price is mostly 0.8 to 1.5 yuan About a pound, and some local good quality watermelon, the price is mostly above 1.5 yuan.

Wu Huiqing, Secretary-General of the Wuxi Fruit Association, told reporters that the current year is the best period for watermelon sales. The total daily volume of Wuxi fruit is about 1,600-1,700 tons, of which watermelon is about 1,100 tons, and the most in previous years, The daily sales volume of watermelon is only over 800 tons, and this year it is about 20% more.

"This year, the amount of ordinary watermelon is very large, the price has also been reduced a lot, the wholesale price has basically dropped to 1 yuan or less." Wu Huiqing introduced poor quality watermelon, as long as the wholesale price of 0.5-0.6 per pound. Because there are not many watermelons of good quality this year, and there is little supply, the price is still very high. For example, the watermelons in the northeastern pond have a wholesale price of more than 2 yuan per catty.