Loquat is in season in Beinan Township (卑南鄉), Taitung County in eastern Taiwan, and Taitung Area Farmers’ Association will hold a loquat festival at Yuan Sen Applied Botanical Garden in Beinan on March 10 and 11 to promote the fruit

Taiwan News 
Date: 2018/03/07
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News)—Loquat is in season in Beinan Township (卑南鄉), Taitung County

in eastern Taiwan, and Taitung Area Farmers’ Association will hold a loquat festival at Yuan Sen Applied Botanical Garden (原生應用植物園) in Beinan on March 10 and 11 to promote the fruit.

Admission to the festival is free, and the organizer will prepare loquat ice, loquat flower tea, and loquat dishes with rice for visitors to taste, according to a Chinese-language Liberty Times report.

Beinan Township has the largest area of loquat farms in Taitung County, and this year the crop gives an abundant yield with the fruit being big, fragrant and sweet, according to the report.      [FULL  STORY]