The district is famous for its melons, and also produces wine, olives, wheat and esparto grass.
Large quantities of fruits - apples, pears, quinces, peaches, nectarines, apricots, grapes and melons - were exported by special trains to central Europe, where the Turkestan crop was received a short time before the south European supplies ripened.
Besides manufactures of brandy, flour, oil, soap, linen and cloth, it has an active trade in wheat, wine and fruit, especially melons.
Podolia is famous for its cherries and] mulberries, its melons, gourds and cucumbers.