Exploding Melons Worried Farmers in China

A phenomenon is sweeping the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu for concern: In the fields explode rows of melons. This is likely to be growth funds.

Exploding watermelons, the Chinese consumer reports for a series of food scandals continue verunsichert.Das state television that on fields in the eastern province of Jiangsu in rows exploded the melons, and speculates that the farmers there was a growth medium used chemical forchlorfenuron the cause. The drug is legal in China, even in the U.S., it is used in the cultivation of grapes and kiwi.
Large parts of the harvest, the waste

The farmer Liu Mingsuo told the broadcaster CCTV, he had sprayed his watermelon with the product and the next day they were exploded. Two-thirds of his crop he would have to throw in the trash.

The transmitter could also cites experts who felt that the heavy rains after a long dry period, the melons have burst. Affected by the phenomenon of the exploding fruit were also farmers who had used no forchlorfenuron.

Consumers in China are concerned, however, has long been the quality of their food. High point was 2008, the scandal over melamine-contaminated milk, six children died after eating and are treated almost 300,000 with severe kidney disease had.

The melamine was added to milk powder, to simulate a higher protein content. Despite a 2009 law passed by on food safety since there were always some disturbing news about nitrates treated with bean sprouts, steamed buns with banned preservatives or heavy metal contaminated rice.

Prime Minister Wen Jiabao last month, blamed the “dishonesty” and the “moral decline” of some food producers.