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.