Pair of Yubari melons fetch 1.5 million yen at season's 1st auction

A pair of melons produced in the northern Japanese city of Yubari, Hokkaido, sold for 1.5 million yen ($13,400) in the first auction of this harvest season on Friday.The price was half the record 3 million yen fetched for a pair of Yubari melons, a type of premium cantaloupe, in the previous year's auction, but largely in line with prices set in regular years at the Sapporo Central Wholesale Market.The successful bidder was Kurashige Shoten, a fruit wholesaler in Sapporo, Hokkaido, which plans to give the melons to children at an elementary school in Yubari."In the farmland, shipments for s…READ FULL ARTICLE