Ke manaʻo nei nā mea kanu melon Astrakhan e hōʻiliʻili ma kahi o 320,000 tons o nā melons a me nā melons i kēia makahiki, wahi a ke kia'āina o ka ʻāina, ʻo Igor Babushkin.
ʻO ka lā ʻekolu o ʻAukake ka World Watermelon Day. ʻO ka ʻāina ʻo Astrakhan i manaʻo ʻia ʻo ia ka "watermelon capital" o Rūsia. Hoʻoulu ʻia kēlā me kēia kolu o ka watermelon Lūkini ma kēia ʻāina, a ʻo ka berry ponoʻī kekahi o nā hōʻailona nui o ka ʻāina ʻo Astrakhan.
"I kēia manawa ua piha ka ʻohi ʻana ma nā māla Astrakhan. Ua hoʻohiki nā mea kanu melon Astrakhan e hōʻiliʻili i 320 tausani tons o nā melons a me nā melons mai 9,000 mau ʻeka. E hoʻouna mākou i kekahi i Moscow a me St. Petersburg, a me Belarus a me Kazakhstan, "i kākau ai ke kia'āina ma Telegram.
Ma ke ʻano he ʻelele o ka Ministry of Agriculture and Fishing Industry o ka ʻāina i kuhikuhi ʻia iā RIA Novosti, ʻo ka hōʻiliʻili ʻana o nā wai melons i ka makahiki i hala ma kahi o ka pae like.
Wahi a Babushkin, ʻo ka haʻaheo kūikawā o nā mea hānai kūloko ʻo "Watermelon Rainbow". He mau hua ʻoniʻoni kēia me ka ʻiʻo ʻōmaʻomaʻo, melemele, keʻokeʻo a ʻalani.