Lixiping Industrial & Cultural Development Association

Written by Intan, edited by TLAA 

    When you are ready to take a tour around Lixiping Leisure Agricultural Area you may need enough information as a guide inside the area. Because in this area there are many leisure farms that may draw your attention. But no need to worry about it, you just need to go to Lixiping Industrial and Cultural Development Association offices. This association will help you to get more information about leisure farm activities in this area.

Office of Lixiping Recreational Agricultural District

       Lixiping Tourism Service Centre, that is, Lixiping Industrial and Cultural Development Association reception office provides all the information about the area. Locating it is not an issue at all; just follow the main road and turn left you will find a simple building in the left side between farmlands. This information centre just like a bridge connecting two sides, leisure farms and tourists from both sides. On the leisure farm aspect, this association helps promote all the leisure farms activities and facilities and further define the differences between the leisure farms. They go further than that and explain about their main farming activities and products.

They sell many products

Lixiping leisure agricultural area is a well-known herbs theme park and also available are organic vegetables, high stem-grafted pears (Asian pears), guavas, star fruits, grapes, strawberries, tomatoes, flowers, and more useful plants. On the other side, the association also helps the tourists by providing them with information on  leisure farming activities. They make some brochures and pamphlets to support their explaination to the tourists. The Taiwanese people are very kind and helpful, no matter what you need they will try their best to help you and even give directions. 

They chat together

       Lixiping Industrial and Cultural Development Association is a Taiwan government parastatal responsible for organizing various events in this leisure farm area. The different events held are Harvesting Festival, You Tong Hua Festival, and many more. You Tong Hua are a tree that has white flowers representing Hakka people. Harvesting Festival will be held on July 20-21, 2013. 

In this festival, the association prepares the fruits ornamentals and flower cotton to decorate the fence near the road. 

    In this festival, the association prepares the fruits ornamentals and flower cotton to decorate the fence near the road. It’s an interesting activity, such that even me as a as a volunteer, also help them to make the ornamentals and also decorate the fence. On that day, they have 3 activities during the events; the first is a bazaar of fruits with 30 booths and they will share traditional cake for all the visitors. Secondly, they provide a bus to take tourists around Lixiping Leisure Agricultural Area; and lastly is the celebration of the harvest. The harvesting competition is open to the farmers who compete among themselves such that the farmer with the sweetest fruit is declared the winner. The prizes are also fantastic, with the first prize being a motor cycle, and the rest of the prizes are flat television screens and refrigerators. It is very interesting, isn’t it? So don’t waste your time and visit Lixiping Leisure Agricultural Area!