Recently, the Harbin Academy of Agricultural Sciences announced the successful cultivation of gold watermelon, so that its seed price dropped from 2 to 3 yuan per piece to 0.5 to 1 yuan. The source price has dropped sharply, which means that more gold watermelons will be bought in the future. Bingcheng Gold Watermelon has two varieties of yellow and red flesh, with sugar content of 9% to 9.5%, while ordinary watermelon is about 8%. So its taste is sweeter than ordinary watermelon.
Compared with ordinary watermelons that weigh twenty to thirty jin, each of the golden watermelons is only five or six jin. The small and sweet gold watermelon is becoming the leading product in gift fruit market, which sells for four to five times the price of ordinary watermelon. The average production per mu of ice city gold watermelon can reach 2780 kilograms. At the moment, it has been planted in Harbin, Daqing and Ning'an, with a total area of about 30,000 mu.