Introducing eco-friendly, colored and sweeter watermelon you can eat throughout the year: Gwangil Farming Corporative

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(PowerKorea) Farmers in Haman County started to grow watermelon in greenhouses from the 60s. Today, the county has become the chief producing district in the nation. People guess that this is because the climate is good throughout the year and the Nam River and the Nakdong River provide fertile soil. 

In fact, the fertile soil, fresh water and vast plain in the region have let farmers to raise two crops a year for a longtime. Around 2,000 farm houses are producing yearly 1.5 million tons of watermelon. Watermelon is usually cultivated in summer but here we can have the taste as early as January thanks to advances in technology. 

Park Bun-yeon, president of Gwangil Farming Corporative, started to sell and distribute fruits in her late 20s in Daegu. She moved to Haman County and engaged in watermelon business during which she found a great talent in the field. Winning the Nationwide Shipment Awards in the distribution category from NongHyup in 2003 encouraged her to run her own business and in 2005 opened Gwangil Farming Corporative. 

She started to directly supply watermelon from April next year to large marts and wowed people by introducing seedless watermelon and yellow-inside watermelon. In order to secure stably supply of watermelon throughout the year, she signs cultivation contract with local farmers on a regular basis and is now supplying yearly around 2.5 million watermelons (80% of the whole production in the region) to emart, Lotte Mart, NongHyup and Homeplus.

April 2019, the corporative exported 300 million won ($267,427) worth watermelon to Hong Kong followed by 3 tons in the first quarter of this year already. Park expects a total of 30,000 tons of export to Hong Kong by the end of this year.

“Our watermelons are grown eco-friendly and sweeter (11~12brix) and our colored product lines will add fun of picking. Farmers at the corporative work together with shared values and goals and we are determined to grow and supply the best quality and taste watermelon possible in the market home and abroad” says Park.

Park received a presidential citation at the 25th Farmer’s Day event for making contribution to advancement of watermelon distribution system.

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