date:Jun 07, 2023
The bad weather put a spoke in the wheels of the melon and watermelon campaign, leading to several diseases in the field and reducing the fruit set of the earliest transplants to a minimum.
Rain was recorded for two consecutive weeks and open field melons were either in flowering or fruiting. There was a lack of pollinator insects (i.e., those that carry pollen from one flower to another, allowing pollination and subsequent fruit formation, ed.) and there was a lack of sunlight, on a continuous