"All last May, fruit brokers were buying whole fields of watermelon at record prices of NT $ 180 per vine," says melon farmer Liang Teng-huan, recalling last year's bumper crop and frenzied buying. "They were loading up 15-ton trucks with 600 melons each and driving them out of Chunghsinpu one after another.
「去年 5 月一整月，盤商以每條瓜藤 180 元的新高價包下整片瓜園，載滿 600 多顆華寶大西瓜的 15 噸重大卡車從中心埔這邊出去，一台接一台。