Radio Taiwan International 
Date: 01 April, 2019
By: Natalie Tso

Pingtung has tagged its pineapples with bright colors to attract visitors (CNA photo)

Taiwan is commemorating Children’s Day and Tomb-sweeping Day during the upcoming four-day weekend, which begins on April 4. During the holiday, Pingtung County is hosting a rainbow festival. It has tagged over 50,000 pineapples in the fields with green, orange, red, purple, yellow and blue to create designs that visitors can enjoy as they visit the colorful pineapple fields.

Pingtung County Chief Pan Men-an said that ordinary pineapple fields have been turned into art for visitors to enjoy.

Pingtung is Taiwan’s largest source of pineapples. Last year, the county exported 19,000 metric tons of the fruit at a value of NT$1.3 billion (or over US$42 million). So far this year, Pingtung has already exported 8,000 metric tons or NT$300 million (nearly US$10 million) worth of the fruit.    [FULL  STORY]