Pumpkins are widely planted in the world and also in China. Pumpkin seeds are delicious food and can be used as medicine to drive away tapeworms and schistosomiasis.
The fruit of pumpkin can grow very big. Every state in the United States has a pumpkin competition every year. California once hosted the first international pumpkin championship in the world. A pumpkin from Windsor, Canada, weighs 17 1 kg. In the United States, Punta Luma defeated a pumpkin weighing 143 kg. A farmer in Castro Valley of the United States also won the first prize in the California Pumpkin Competition with his 218kg pumpkin. Deere, a farmer in Nova Scotia, Canada, harvested a huge pumpkin in 1983, reaching 224.3 kg.
1986 10, Robert Gankatz of Jacobstown, New Jersey, USA, harvested a giant pumpkin, weighing 304.6 kilograms and measuring 3.6 meters in circumference, and won the international pumpkin league competition. Of course, this record will be broken in the future.