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Ua mālama ʻia ke kūlanakauhale nani o Kakegawa, Iapana i kahi hanana kupaianaha, ʻo ka Autumn Cantaloupe Evaluation, kahi i hōʻike ai ka poʻe mahiʻai mai ke kikowaena waena komohana i ko lākou mākaukau i ka mahi ʻana i ka cantaloupe. Hoʻonohonoho ʻia i kēlā me kēia makahiki e ka Shizuman Prefectural Greenhouse Agricultural Cooperative Branch, ke manaʻo nei ka hanana e hoʻomaikaʻi i nā ʻano ulu o nā mahiʻai melon kūloko.
I kēia makahiki, ua waiho ʻia ka huina o 24 mau cantaloupes hāʻule i ulu i loko o nā hale ʻōmaʻomaʻo ma ʻelima mau kūlanakauhale a me hoʻokahi kūlanakauhale ma ke komohana-waena prefecture no ka loiloi. ʻO kahi papa o nā luna kānāwai he 10, me nā ʻelele mai nā mākeke huahana Tokyo a me Osaka, nānā pono i nā mea i komo.
Ua hoʻomaka ke kaʻina hoʻokolokolo ma ka nānā ʻana i ke ʻano mānoanoa o ka ʻili a me ke ʻano holoʻokoʻa o ka melon. Ua ʻoki nā luna kānāwai i nā melon e ana i ka ʻono, i kapa ʻia ʻo brix, a ua hoʻāʻo i ka ʻono e loiloi i ka ʻono a me ke ʻano.
Wahi a ka hui hui, ua hoʻokūkū ʻia ka ʻohi hāʻule ʻana o kēia makahiki e ka wela maʻamau mai ʻOkakopa a Nowemapa. ʻOiai ʻoi aku ka liʻiliʻi o ka ʻohi maʻamau, ua hōʻike ʻia nā melons i ka ʻono ʻokoʻa a he leʻaleʻa meaʻai.
Ua haʻi ʻo Masakazu Masuda, ka luna lālā o ka lālā Shizuman o ka Prefectural Greenhouse Agricultural Cooperative, i kāna mau manaʻo: “I kēia makahiki, ua loaʻa iā mākou nā pilikia e pili ana i ka wela o ke kauwela e hoʻomau ana a hiki i Nowemapa, me ka paʻakikī o ka mahi ʻana. Eia naʻe, me ka hāʻule ʻana o ka mahana, ke kakali nei mākou i kahi hōʻiliʻili maikaʻi. Manaʻo mākou e hauʻoli nā mea kūʻai aku i nā melon i ka piko o ko lākou oʻo a hauʻoli i kā lākou ʻono ʻono.
ʻAʻole hōʻike wale ka loiloi cantaloupe hāʻule i ke kūpaʻa o ka poʻe mahiʻai e kū nei i nā pilikia o ke aniau, akā hōʻike pū kekahi i ka maikaʻi maikaʻi loa i loaʻa i ka hua o kēia makahiki. ʻOiai ka liʻiliʻi o ka ʻohi ʻana, hoʻopio nā melons me ko lākou ʻono nui, kahi hōʻike o ka hoʻolaʻa a me ke akamai o nā mahiʻai kūloko.