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Honeydew melon ripe for market in Xinjiang

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-06-19 16:16

A woman display a newly-picked honeydew melon at an auction fair at Toksun county in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Friday June 19, 2009. Fruits of the county's 22,000 mu (1,400 hectares) melon field grow ripe in June and reach the Canadian market for the first time. [Xinhua]