TAGAYTAY HOLDS PINEAPPLE FESTIVAL
Tagaytay City, May 27, 1998 - Pineapple-costumed revellers, floats filled with fruits, children offering flowers, fresh vegetables, colorful marching bands and roadside markets offering fresh farm produce are major attractions drawing city folk to Tagaytay's unique 2-week pineapple festival which started last weekend.
Dubbed PiliPINYAhan, the festival is a brainchild of Norman de Guzman, president of the Tagaytay Tourism Council which spearheads the event.
Tagaytay's "First Flower Festival" opened the festivities at the Tagaytay Picnic Grove mountain resort. Participating plant and flower farmers from as far as Talisay in Batangas and Los Banos, Laguna are selling grafted fruit tree seedlings, some of them already bearing fruits like calamansi, mango, American lemon and mangosteen.
Decorative garden and indoor plants are also available, either for homes or for institutional landscaping. City dwellers wiped out last weekend's displays of bonsai, Palawan Cherry saplings, potted flowering marigolds and petunias, and organically-grown salad vegetables.
The festival is a cooperative venture of the Philippine Tourism Authority, the Presidential Commission on Tagaytay-Taal, the Tagaytay city government, the city's tourism council, the Tagaytay-Makiling-Taal Plant Growers Association and the Department of Tourism.
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