Kapan Times
Date: Jul 22, 2018
By: Ko Shu-Ling

People line up at a dragon fruit stand in a farmer’s market in downtown Taipei on Saturday. Proceeds from fruit sales will be sent to flood and landslide victims in western Japan. | KYODO

TAIPEI – A Taiwanese farmer held a two-day dragon fruit sale in Taipei over the weekend to raise money for victims of the floods and landslide in western Japan.

Lin Ting-tsai, 65, said he harvested 1,380 kg of red dragon fruit at his farm in Yilan County in eastern Taiwan and decided to sell some of it for a good cause.

He said he would donate the money collected from the sale of 900 kg of the crop, the first of his four annual harvests, to the flood victims in Japan in light of the news reports on the disaster.

Lin said he estimated that the two-day sale could bring in between 100,000 and 120,000 new Taiwan dollars (¥364,000 to ¥439,000). The sale ended Sunday.
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