- Author: Mike Hsu
Published on: August 19, 2022
![Zheng Wang crouches in a field of watermelon, talking with growers](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/food/blogfiles/94375small.jpg)
Vegetable crops and irrigation advisor Zheng Wang (crouching) shares with growers the results of his grafted watermelon trials during a UC Cooperative Extension Field Day. Photo by Adrian Yepez
UC Cooperative Extension advisor tests ancient technique, new to California melons
As growers across California navigate severe drought, supply-chain challenges and rising inflation, reducing inputs has become an existential necessity. And for watermelon growers, a new twist on a thousands-year-old practice is showing real promise.
In the summer of 2018, watermelon growers brought a pressing problem to Zheng Wang, who had recently joined University of California Cooperative Extension as the vegetable crops and irrigation advisor for Stanislaus, San Joaquin and Merced counties.
Growers were seeing an...
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