Institute harvests experimental melons

The Mekong Delta Rice Research Institute has successfully harvested 32 Fujiura melons, whose pulp can be sun-dried and sold on the market.

If the institute can improve the quality of the melons, it will provide seeds for farmers to grow and export the fruit to Japan.

The melon was named after the Japanese Fujiura company, which provided the institute with the seeds, cultivation technologies, methods of protection and instruction on primary treatment.

The seeds were grown experimentally at the research institute and the garden of Trieu Cong Dinh, the head of the Clean Vegetables Cooperative in Long Tuyen ward, Binh Thuy district, Can Tho city.

Fujiura vines grown in China and Japan have many fruits, but their weight is only half of those in Vietnam, largely due to weather differences here.

Fujiura is an oval fruit whose vine, leaves, skin, pulp and smell are similar to Vietnamese long gourd but it is round like a pomelo.

It was originally grown in Japan, where it is used in vegetable soups, salads and steamed fish dishes./.