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The firm V. & P. PASSAS O.E. produces a total of 3.000.000 kg of watermelon annually increasing rate per year, to fully meet the demand of its products from the market.

The varieties grown are: Obla, Florida, Samantha, Torpila and Cleopatra

Watermelon is a vine-like flowering plant originally from southern Africa. It is a large annual plant with coarse, hairy pinnately-lobed leaves and white to yellow flowers.

The plant has been cultivated in Egypt since at least the 2nd millennium BC and by the 10th century AD had reached India and China. It later spread into southern Europe and on into the New World. Much research effort has been put into breeding disease-resistant varieties and into developing a seedless strain. Nowadays a large number of cultivars are available, many of them producing mature fruit within 100 days of planting the crop. The fruit is rich in vitamins A and C and can be eaten raw or cooked in a variety of ways.

The watermelon is an annual plant with long, weak, trailing or climbing stems which are five-angled and up to 3 m (10 ft) long. Young growth is densely woolly with yellowish-brown hairs which disappear as the plant ages. The leaves are stemmed and are alternate, large and pinnately-lobed, stiff and rough when old. The plant has branching tendrils. The flowers grow singly in the leaf axils and the corolla is white or yellow inside and greenish-yellow on the outside. The flowers are unisexual, with male and female flowers occurring on the same plant.

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