CHONGQING (CQNEWS) -- Pumpkin pie, pumpkin rice, and vegetable with pumpkin juice…the Pumpkin Banquet consisting of 39 dishes cooked with Miben pumpkins was displayed in the hall of Dianjiang County Meeting Center, and it attracted quite a few citizens to have a taste on the forenoon of July 30, 2013.

Dianjiang is Chongqing’s largest Miben pumpkin production base, with the plant area over 120,000 mu and pumpkin output volume of 240,000 tons. And more than 2,000 pumpkin-planting households manage the land above 10 mu.

On the same day, tens of supermarkets, agricultural products wholesale markets, and agricultural companies from Chongqing and other cities signed agreements to order 84,500-ton Miben pumpkins. (Translated by Chen Siyan, Fathom Language Limited)