Agriculture Business Week

Introducing “Champion watermelon”.

And farmers in Southern Mindanao are happy that this hybrid variety, named Takii Watermelon Oriental Ball P1, has come along.

In Davao del Sur, for instance, farmers described it as dako (big) and daghang mamunga (prolific), much better than the old variety.

Introduced by the Allied Botanical Corp. (ABC), the country’s only full Filipino-owned vegetable breeding company, Tokii Oriental Ball was introduced to the farming sector in a series of harvest festivals conducted by the company headed by Will U. Co.

Other provinces now growing it include Davao del Norte and North Cotabato.

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As the sun unleashes its fury on a hot summer day imagine yourself biting a slice of watermelon and sipping its Juice as it oozes on your mouth. What a way to quench your thirst and be refreshed!

Containing 92 percent water, it is no wonder why this fruit is called watermelon. Grown in a tropical country like the Philippines, the fruit is commonplace in fruit stalls.

But aside from quenching thirst, what else does this watery fruit offer?

HEALTH PLUS
June Lay, a lifestyle columnist of HealthNewsDigest.com says: “Many of us think that watermelon is high in calories, contains only sugar and water but, this sweet red fruit does pack more than we think!”

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