Indonesia claims world`s largest melon

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - A group of Indonesian farmers from the main island of Java have grown a melon weighing more than four kilograms that the country's record house claimed Friday was the world's largest.

"The honey-globe melon weighed 4.26 kilogrammes (9.37 pounds). We claim it to be the largest in the world," director of Indonesia's Museum of Records (MURI) Paulus Pangka told AFP.

"We have carried out a survey and found no other melon with such weight," he said, clarifying that the fruit was not to be confused with a watermelon.

The melon sold at auction for eight million rupiah (850 dollars). A regular melon would normally weigh about two kilogrammes and sell in Indonesia for around 20,000 rupiah.