Melon growers in despair: Hail-damaged watermelons and melons are rotting in the fields of Abay region (Kazakhstan)

Farmers in Kazakhstan's Abay region intend to feed the current watermelon harvest to cattle, EastFruit reports. As melon growers told the KTK TV channel, ripe watermelons were damaged by hail, they rotted in the fields, and now there is no point in harvesting them. Farmers are asking for an extension of loans taken out for sowing melons. As APK Novosti reminds, an unprecedented hailstorm hit the districts of Abay region about ten days ago. Spoiled watermelons and melons began to rot right in the field. Meanwhile, farmers were supposed to start harvesting right now. Read also: Melon for cows: in the south of Kazakhstan, they don't know what to do with the unclaimed volume of melons As one of the farmers reported, there is no point in harvesting watermelons now, there will be no buyers for the goods. All that can be done now is to let the cattle into the field. At the same time, melon growers complain that they now have nothing to pay off the ...