WORLD DURIAN FRUIT FESTIVAL 2011

BEGINS MAY 1st and runs all week. Many thousands of fruit farmers are bringing fruit into the city. Each day the prices will drop as more and more fruit ripen and the exporters scamper for the best quality fruit to export. This year the production of mangosteen was damaged due to the change in rain and heat patterns. Thus the market is not even getting enough capacity and no mangosteens are for sale in the market. The highway is lined with buyers and people from bangkok who have driven here to buy up as much good quality mangosteen as possible. This year they are holding u signs at every passing truch that reads, we want mangosteens. This is usually the oppoisite. Ussualy farmers are parked onto the highway awaiting the buyer to cam and choose the best fruit! Thisis always a changing market!