Melon Season in Hama – From the Vine to the Truck

Melons are one of the four main crops on our land in Hama, along with onions, potatoes and wheat. These photos follow a harvest day on the melon fields, from picking to the loaded truck.

Picking and lining up

Pickers work along the vines and set the ripe melons down in a line on the path between the rows. Laying them out like this keeps the fruit in one place and makes it quick to count and box. A worker walks the row with empty boxes, and the melons are packed where they lie.

The field from above

From the air you can see the scale of a harvest day: workers spread along the rows, a tractor with a loaded trailer moving through the field, and a pickup waiting at the side. The black lines running across the soil are drip irrigation pipes.

Boxed, stacked and strapped

At the edge of the field the boxes go onto a pickup, stacked several layers high. The load is strapped down before the truck leaves, because melons are heavy and a shifting stack bruises the fruit.

How the crop is grown

Our melons are grown without hormones or harmful chemicals. Across melons, onions and potatoes, our Hama land produces more than 1,000 tons of vegetables. See our agriculture services page, or read about the onion harvest on the same land.