Melon farmer Ade Dwi Adedi used to worry where to sell his produce every time the harvest season arrives.
Sometimes a fruit distributor would come to pick up his melons, but most of the time they end up in a nearby wet market, selling at half the regular price along with tips for middlemen - or worse still, they become rotten.
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