“中国八步红瓜子”是贺县的出口名产。河南大队一九七五年在甘蔗地里试套种红瓜子获得成功,一九七六年九亩,收瓜子四百六十斤,平均每亩五十一斤。贺县外贸局及铺门供销社总结了河南大队的经验,一九七七年在全县推广,其中铺门公社种植红瓜子的面积比上一年增长一倍半。甘蔗地里套种红瓜子可以充分发挥土地潜力,做到一地两用,双获丰收;红瓜子的培土、施肥,及收获后把瓜蔓、瓜皮埋到蔗蔸里,也给甘蔗施了肥,培了土;甘蔗和红 “China’s eight-step red melon seeds” is He County’s export name. In 1975, the Henan Brigade succeeded in experimenting with red melon seeds in the sugarcane field. In 1976, nine acres of melon seeds were harvested and 450 kg of melon seeds were collected, with an average of 51 kg per mu. He County Foreign Trade Bureau and the shop door supply and marketing cooperatives summed up the experience of the brigade in Henan Province, in 1977 to promote the county, which shop door commune planting red melon seeds area more than double the previous year. Sugar cane fields intercropping red melon seeds can give full play to the potential of the land, so that they can be used both by land and by land; harvesting and fertilizing the melon seeds, and planting melon and melon into the cane Fertilizer, cultivated soil; sugar cane and red