The cultivation of melons is widely distributed in China's inland provinces,and exploring the potential of export trade of melons plays an important role in agriculture as well as in the economic development of each province.According to the FAO database and China Statistical Yearbook and other data,this paper utilizes the trade gravity model to analyze the 13 countries and regions with which China's melon export trade is closely involved from 2010 to 2021 as the research sample for empirical analysis,and measures the potential of China's export trade of melons,and finds that China's melon exports are more homogeneous,mostly in the neighboring countries,and that the melon industry urgently needs to be transformed and other problems.It is proposed to deepen the cooperation of agricultural products from neighboring countries,promote the cooperation with big melon trading countries,deepen the brand building to improve the international competitiveness of China's melon and other ways to promote China's melon export trade.
Watermelon and cantaloupeexport potentialagricultural trade