At that time the Erhlun Farmers 'Association of Yunlin County wanted to cultivate a specialty crop. From his own investigations of farmland Chen had found that the sandy land below the Hsiluo Bridge was quite well suited for planting this kind of delicate, cold-sensitive seedless watermelon, so at the behest of the farmers' association, he painstakingly drove from Fengshan in Kaohsiung County to Yunlin to teach the farmers how to grow them.
當時雲林縣二崙農會想種植一項特產農作，陳文郁根據自己所作的農地調查，發現西螺大橋下的荒沙田相當適合種植這種嬌弱「怕冷」的無籽西瓜，因此在農會幹事王良雄積極推廣下，他不辭辛勞從高雄鳳山開車到雲林教導農民種植。