A contest to search out the heaviest watermelon has been held in Akita Prefecture, northern Japan.
An agricultural cooperative within the metropolis of Yokote organizes the occasion yearly to advertise its watermelons.
Seven fruits had been entered on this 12 months’s competitors. They had been of the Carolina Cross selection, a kind of jumbo watermelon grown for livestock feed.
Farmers say circumstances weren’t superb this season, and temperatures remained low.
But the watermelons within the contest had been all big and needed to be carried on a forklift.
The winner weighed in at 80 kilograms. That’s about 6.5 instances the load of the heaviest class of edible watermelons.
Yamamoto Toshio produced the prizewinning watermelon. He has been cultivating the fruit for greater than 30 years. He says he’s glad as a result of his earlier file was about 60 kilograms, and he’ll intention for greater than 100 kilograms subsequent 12 months.
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