Workers check watermelons on conveyer belts at a fruit sorting facility of Japan Agricultural Cooperatives' Tottori Chuo branch in Hokuei, Tottori Prefecture. The town is a major producer of watermelons, with shipments of the fruit currently peaking. From now until mid-July, roughly 8,500 tons of Daiei Suika watermelons will be shipped mainly to the Kansai region. About 30,000 watermelons are carried along conveyer belts at the facility every day, where workers tap each fruit to hear the sound it makes.
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