Incomes are half the national average, and many people sell grapefruit and melons from the back of battered pickup trucks to make ends meet.

I sell melons, that's all.

Dipping along country roads, it passes ruined stone farmhouses, herds of cows, ramshackle stands selling melons, rural mosques and fields of lavender.

In addition to farming, he also sells melons at the local marketplace in the district.

Ay, my Father, in God's time: at first I must herd goats and sell melons in the market-place for a lump of bread.

Other countries can also report progress: Honduras is selling melons in the United States; Guatemala, strawberries; Panama, cigars and broomsticks.

It isn't large, but I can sell melons a season before the ones in the fields come in.

The tiny town's square - sliced in half by Ohio Route 113 - is taken over by melon farmers who pull up their trucks to sell fresh melons.

Old babushkas sat on boxes and sold a few red roses or melons.

He also sells melons by mail: $30 plus shipping for eight, $18 plus shipping for four.