I am sure the chemical agriculture apologists will see no humor at all in this… as Chinese farmers found out how science can go bad after fields of watermelons exploded like “land mines” after being over-pumped with growth chemicals as the Associated Press and CBS News reports from Bejing,
Watermelons have been bursting by the score in eastern China after farmers gave them overdoses of growth chemicals during wet weather, creating what state media called fields of “land mines.”
About 20 farmers around Danyang city in Jiangsu province were affected, losing up to 115 acres of melon, China Central Television said in an investigative report.
Prices over the past year prompted many farmers to jump into the watermelon market. All of those with exploding melons apparently were first-time users of the growth accelerator forchlorfenuron, though it has been widely available for some time, CCTV said.
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