Summer squash is the mother of "pumpkin seeds" in the harvest season
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Release time：2019-09-12 16:12:56
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Xinjiang Morning News (Wen Chief Reporter Yu Zhubo Rexia Ti Li Haiting Tu Chief Reporter Yu Jiangyan Li Haiting)
Xinjiang Morning News (Wen/Chief Reporter Yu Zhubo Rexia Ti Li Haiting Tu/Chief Reporter Yu Jiangyan Li Haiting) recently drove to the north and South Xinjiang for a self-driving tour. In the fields beside the expressway or on the ridges on both sides of the rural road, you can always see a long oval melon, like a south. But the color of the melon is lighter than that of the pumpkin. It looks like a gourd but bigger than a gourd. It looks like a gourd but lies on the ground.
It is understood that this kind of melon is pumpkin, which is specially used for Seed-Setting and drying. It is sold as "pumpkin seeds" by stir-fried merchants and becomes a snack food in the mouth of the whole country.
On October 11, Xinjiang Morning Post reporters saw many white-flowered pumpkin seeds along the roadside of the 101 and 103 regiments of the 6th Division of the Corps. Some farmers were turning over the seeds with shovels, and some sunned seeds piled up on the roadside, waiting for the buyers to come and buy them.
Xinjiang Morning News reporter learned from the Agricultural Department of the Autonomous Region that in order to give cotton, oil sunflower land and other land stubble, in recent years farmers began to grow a large number of seeds for pumpkin. Most of these pumpkins are in order agriculture. They are purchased by special speculation purchasers at prices ranging from 12 to 18 yuan per kilogram.
"Planting a mu of pumpkin can generally produce about 150 kilograms of melon seeds, and the cost-benefit of cultivation can reach about 1000 yuan. For example, if the cotton field is planted for a long time, the fertility will decrease and the cotton yield will decrease. Some other crops must be replanted for stubble reversal. The income of stubble reversal for pumpkin cultivation is higher than that for wheat cultivation, and all of them are contract agriculture with stable income. Ren Hai, a peasant household in the 22nd Regiment of the 12th Division of the Corps, said.
In the 22nd Regiment of the 12th Division of the Corps, many fields where cotton had been planted before this year, pumpkin stubble was planted. In September, these leaves-removed pumpkin were piled up in rows and rows. When they were ripe, the skin of the pumpkin was light yellow, twice or three times larger than the daily consumption of pumpkin vegetables. The summer squash is naturally dried in the field, and the scene is spectacular.
By October, the sun-dried pumpkins had all been harvested and stripped of their seeds and dried in the yard dam in front of and behind the house, or on the country roadside.
It is reported that pumpkin seeds are planted all over the northern and southern Xinjiang at present. Urumqi Midong District, the 6th Division of the Corps, Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture, the 12th Division of the Corps, the 8th Division of the Corps, the 10th Division of the Corps, Fuhai County, Bulzin County, Xinyuan County, Yili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, and Wusu City, Tacheng District. Jinghe County, Boertala Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture, Yanqi County, Bohu County and Heshuo County of Bayinguoling Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture are all planted. Some of these seeds are reserved for processing by local enterprises in Xinjiang, while others are sold to the mainland markets of Guangdong and Zhejiang.
With the improvement of living standards, the consumption demand of various kinds of melon seeds (sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, pumpkin seeds, pumpkin seeds) has increased rapidly. In recent years, pumpkin seeds have developed rapidly in Northeast, Northwest and Inner Mongolia. In Xinjiang, the cultivation of pumpkin seeds not only completes the effect of land stubble to improve fertility, but also brings stable benefits to farmers, so the planting area is expanding rapidly. In the past five years, the area of pumpkin seeds planted in Xinjiang has increased by more than 30% annually.