Birch Town White Melon Seeds

Birch Town White Melon Seeds

　　White melon seeds are the seeds of winter squash and horned melon. They are categorized by color and shape into four types: snow white, plain white, fuzzy-edged, and thick yellow-skinned. The white melon seeds produced in Birch Town are large, white, plump, and highly mature, offering a deliciously fragrant, crispy, and crunchy taste when eaten. They can also be used for oil extraction and processed into beverages. Additionally, white melon seeds have therapeutic effects for conditions such as prostatitis and pancreatitis. The salt-and-pepper flavored white melon seeds produced in Birch Town won a silver award at China's First National Food Expo in 1988 and are exported to Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Japan, Canada, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. As one of the national production bases for white melon seeds, Birch Town has been included in the National Spark Program. On the basis of updating seed varieties and promoting high-yield cultivation techniques such as seedling transplantation, 11 white melon seed professional cooperatives have been established in key production areas, along with six contiguous white melon seed planting bases, covering a total planting area of 75,000 mu, yielding approximately 7,000 tons of white melon seeds.