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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - We are successful the highest of melon play and the farmworkers and their effect are doing each they tin to bushed the heat.
“We recognize these blistery spells, unfortunately, they look to beryllium hotter than, you know, successful the past,” said California husbandman Joe Del Bosque.
Del Bosque works hard to supply a harmless spot for his workers.
“We springiness them grooming connected however to support themselves from the heat, what are immoderate of the symptoms from vigor illness.”
The workers commencement their time astatine dawn and enactment until 2:30 p.m., but Del Bosque takes each time and its upwind conditions into consideration.
“If it gets really, truly hot, we mightiness nonstop them location astatine 1 p.m. oregon thing similar that earlier it starts to deterioration connected them,” Del Bosque said.
When they’re retired successful the field, the workers person a never-ending proviso of water.
“They person shades truthful that erstwhile they instrumentality a break, they tin beryllium down and rest.”
One unit unsocial volition prime 12,000 melons successful a day.
“When it gets hot, it makes much harvest ripen faster, that means we person to prime each this harvest earlier the vigor tin harm it,” Del Bosque said.
The farmers besides instrumentality preliminary steps to assistance support the melons cool.
“One of the things we’re capable to bash due to the fact that of utilizing technology, similar drip irrigation, we tin irrigate this tract close aft the unit goes home,” Del Bosque said.
They tin h2o the fields each time if they request to, but they besides spray the crops with clay material, astatine slightest 3 times a season.
“What it does, it helps support the works from the vigor and it keeps the works conscionable a small spot cooler,” Del Bosque said.
The melons tin get sunburned from excessively overmuch vulnerability to the sun, deeming it unworthy to marque it to the store.
